- Brothers and sisters, Brothers and sisters in fiction, Children's stories, Death
Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Lois Lowry, Jenni Oliver
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, Perfection Learning Prebound
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English, Spanish, French, und
- ISBN
- 9780833572349
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“It was Molly who drew the line.”
Lois Ann Lowry (/ˈlaʊəri/;[2] née Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry
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