Lois Lowry Reading Order

9 books (1978–1995)

Start with Anastasia Krupnik, the first of 9 books in the Anastasia Krupnik series.

#	Title
1	Anastasia Krupnik 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	Anastasia Again! 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Anastasia at Your Service 1982Buy 🇺🇸
4	Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst / Off Her Rocker 1984Buy 🇺🇸
5	Anastasia on Her Own 1985Buy 🇺🇸
6	Anastasia Has the Answers 1986Buy 🇺🇸
7	Anastasia's Chosen Career 1987Buy 🇺🇸
8	Anastasia at This Address 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	Anastasia, Absolutely 1995Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1994–2011)

Start with Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About The Future 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Open Your Eyes 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shining On 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Chronicles of Harris Burdick 2011Buy 🇺🇸

44 books (1996–2013)

Start with A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620(By: Kathryn Lasky), the first of 44 books in the Dear America series.

#	Title
1	A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620(By: Kathryn Lasky) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864(By: Barry Denenberg) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart(By: Kristiana Gregory) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Picture Of Freedom(By: Patricia McKissack) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865(By: Joyce Hansen) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence(By: Sherry Garland) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903(By: Kathryn Lasky) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941(By: Barry Denenberg) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763(By: Mary Pope Osborne) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	Stationery Pack(By: Patricia McKissack) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912(By: Ellen Emerson White) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi(By: Jim Murphy) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
13	A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin(By: Karen Hesse) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	My Heart is on the Ground(By: Ann Rinaldi) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl(By: Ann Turner) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory 1868(By: Kristiana Gregory) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
17	A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896(By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North(By: Patricia McKissack) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
19	My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941(By: Mary Pope Osborne) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
20	One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938(By: Barry Denenberg) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
21	Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932(By: Kathryn Lasky) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
22	My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881(By: Jim Murphy) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
23	Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849(By: Kristiana Gregory) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
24	Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,(By: Sherry Garland) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
25	A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917(By: Kathryn Lasky) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
26	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932(By: Barry Denenberg) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
27	My Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck(By: Kathryn Lasky) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
28	Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935(By: Katelan Janke) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
29	When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer(By: Beth Seidel Levine) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
30	Where Have All the Flowers Gone?(By: Ellen Emerson White) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
31	All the Stars in the Sky(By: Megan McDonald) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
32	Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota(By: Marion Dane Bauer) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
33	Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson(By: Ann Turner) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
34	So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847(By: Barry Denenberg) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
35	Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909(By: Deborah Hopkinson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
36	I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691(By: Lisa Rowe Fraustino) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
37	Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763(By: Patricia McKissack) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941(By: Kirby Larson) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Cannons at Dawn(By: Kristiana Gregory) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
40	Like the Willow Tree 2011Buy 🇺🇸
41	With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954(By: Andrea Davis Pinkney) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
42	Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880(By: Susan Patron) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
43	A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906(By: Judy Blundell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
44	Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose(By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2019–2019)

#	Title
1	The Giver(With: P. Craig Russell) 2019Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2002–2016)

Start with Gooney Bird Greene, the first of 7 books in the Gooney Bird Greene series.

#	Title
1	Gooney Bird Greene 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gooney Bird and the Room Mother 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gooney the Fabulous 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Gooney Bird Is So Absurd 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Gooney Bird on the Map 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	Gooney Bird and All Her Charms 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rania Matar 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1983–1990)

Start with The 100th Thing About Caroline and read in order.

#	Title
1	The 100th Thing About Caroline 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	Switcharound 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Your Move, J.P.! 1990Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1998–2020)

Start with Looking Back: A Book of Memories and read in order.

#	Title
1	Looking Back: A Book of Memories 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	On the Horizon 2020Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2009–2009)

#	Title
1	Crow Call 2009Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1988–1999)

Start with All About Sam, the first of 4 books in the Sam Krupnik series.

#	Title
1	All About Sam 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Attaboy, Sam! 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	See You Around, Sam! 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Zooman Sam 1999Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1977–2024)

Start with A Summer to Die, the first of 17 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	A Summer to Die 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	Autumn Street 1980Buy 🇺🇸
4	Taking Care of Terrific 1983Buy 🇺🇸
5	Us and Uncle Fraud 1984Buy 🇺🇸
6	Rabble Starkey 1987Buy 🇺🇸
7	Road Ahead 1987Buy 🇺🇸
8	New Windmills 1989Buy 🇺🇸
9	Number the Stars 1989Buy 🇺🇸
10	Handle with Care 1993Buy 🇺🇸
11	Stay!: Keeper's Story 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Silent Boy 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	Gossamer 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Birthday Ball 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	Bless This Mouse 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Windeby Puzzle 2023Buy 🇺🇸
17	Tree. Table. Book. 2024Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1993–2012)

Start with The Giver, the first of 4 books in the The Giver series.

#	Title
1	The Giver 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gathering Blue 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Messenger 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Son 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2008–2020)

Start with The Willoughbys and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Willoughbys 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Willoughbys Return 2020Buy 🇺🇸