Interest Level
Grades 4 - 7
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.6
Lexile Measure®: 870L
DRA: 44
Guided Reading: V
Genre
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Death, Grief, Loss
- Extended Families
- Autumn
- World War II
- Autumn Themes
- Friends and Friendship
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About This Book
Elizabeth is forced to grow up when her father goes to fight in World War II. Her family moves in with her grandfather, and a special friend is struck by tragedy.About the Authors or Illustrators
Two-time Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Today she lives and writes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a house dominated by a very shaggy Tibetan terrier named Bandit. Her hobbies include gardening, knitting, and photography. Her own photos appear on the covers of her award-winning books Number the Stars and The Giver.
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