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Welcome Newbery Award-Winner Friday, April 1, 2011 Lois Lowry 7:00 p.m. Berkley High School Auditorium New Bless This Mouse New Like the Willow Tree A resilient and quirky colony of church mice From the renewed Dear America series of Title fears another Great X more than they fear Title historical-fiction diaries, this one belongs cats. Under Mouse Mistress Hildegarde’s to 11-year-old Lydia Pierce. Lydia’s world leadership, they save themselves from one turns upside down in 1918, when influen- danger after another—sometimes just by za kills her parents and baby sister. With the skin of their tails! Can one ultimate act of no one left to care for her and her brother, bravery during the feast day of St. Francis get they are taken to live with the Shakers Father Murphy to bless these mice and keep in Maines Sabbathday Lake community. them safe forever? (Ages 7-11) (Ages 9-14) The Giver Gathering Blue The Messenger Twelve-year-old Jonas Kira, an orphan with a twisted Matty is busy running errands lives in a seemingly ideal leg, lives in a world where the through Forest and otherwise lives world. Not until he is given weak are cast aside. When she a carefree life. But he also has a his life assignment as the is given a task that no other power he can’t explain. When local Receiver does he begin community member can carry attitudes become intolerant, he to understand the dark out, Kira soon realizes that she sets out to bring back Kira (Seer’s secrets behind this fragile is surrounded by many myster- daughter and the main character community. Newbery ies and secrets. Secretly she in Gathering Blue) before Village Medal. (Ages 12 & up) plots to uncover the truth about barricades itself entirely against her world—and to find out what outsiders. (Age 12 & up) exists beyond. (Ages 11 & up) Number The Willoughbys Birthday Ball the Stars Lois Lowry’s hilarious novel Princess Patricia Priscilla will In 1943, during the is a parody of “old-fashioned” soon be 16, marrying age in German occupation of children’s books and features her kingdom. A birthday ball is Denmark, ten-year-old the requisite uncaring and planned where suitors will woo Annemarie learns how self-centered parents, orphans, her. The very bored princess to be brave and coura- nanny, and the like. A clever knows that once she is married, geous when she helps parody on classics such as she will not have much freedom, shelter her Jewish James and the Giant Peach so she swaps clothes with her friend from the Nazis. and Pollyanna with wonderfully chambermaid to spend the week Newbery Medal. imperfect orphans and memo- as a peasant girl attending the (Ages 9-12) rable characters. (Ages 8-12) village school. (Ages 8-14)

Anastasia Krupnik Anastasia’s tenth year has Gooney Bird Crow Call some good things like falling is So Absurd Based on Lowry’s in love and getting to know own reminiscence her grandmother and some Gooney Bird of a day in 1945; a bad things like an impending Greene is back! It’s young girl’s father baby brother. (Ages 8-12) January, and the comes home from second grader has serving in the war and begun wearing a she’s shy and excited “two-ponytail hat” about spending the All About Sam fashioned out of a day with him. The pair of ruffled green memory of a treasured day spent with a Sam Krupnik, younger sibling of the noted underpants to keep Anastasia, presents his side of the story special person will resonate with her brain warm. Her outrageous behav- contemporary readers, too. (Ages 5-9) as he shares his views on major issues ior is endearing, and the support of her such as life, growing up and haircuts. classmates is heartwarming. (Ages 6-9) (Ages 6-12)

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Lois Lowry Book Order Form - New & Selected Titles Book Beat and Berkley School District welcome two-time Newbery Award-Winner Lois Lowry to the Berkley High School auditorium on Friday, April 1, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Please return this Pre-Order Form to school by Tuesday, March 29 or to Book Beat by Wednesday, March 30 to guarantee the availability of all titles. To place a phone order, call: 248-968-1190. Prices reflect 10% discount on Hard Covers including tax. This form does not include all of Lois Lowry’s titles, but we will have additional titles for sale at the event. Please call the Book Beat (248 -968-1190) if you would like to add any titles not listed on the order form. Sorry, no discounts on books sold at the event.

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