Lois Lowry Reading Order

9 books (1978–1995)

The Anastasia Krupnik series consists of nine complete books published between 1978 and 1995, all of which should be read in publication order. Written by Lois Lowry, the series follows a young protagonist through various coming-of-age experiences and personal discoveries across the novels. The final entry, Anastasia, Absolutely, concludes this standalone-friendly yet interconnected series that has been beloved by young adult readers for decades.

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

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

6 books (1994–2018)

Lois Lowry edited five complete anthologies between 1994 and 2011, each collecting stories from multiple authors across science fiction and young adult genres. These standalone collections should be read in publication order, beginning with Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence. The series spans diverse themes and includes contributions from various writers, making each volume a distinct reading experience.

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

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1	Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About The Future 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Open Your Eyes 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Shining On 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Chronicles of Harris Burdick 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Totally Middle School 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

44 books (1996–2013)

The Dear America series is a collection of 44 historical fiction books published between 1996 and 2013, with each entry presenting the diary of a young girl living through a significant moment in American history. Written by various authors including Kathryn Lasky, Barry Denenberg, Ann Rinaldi, and others, the series spans events from the Mayflower voyage through the mid-twentieth century. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620. Each book stands alone as a standalone entry while collectively offering young readers perspectives on pivotal American historical events.

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.

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

1 book (2019–2019)

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1	The Giver(With: P. Craig Russell) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (2002–2016)

The Gooney Bird Greene series consists of seven books published between 2002 and 2016, following the adventures of an eccentric young character navigating school and friendships. This complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with Gooney Bird Greene and concluding with Rania Matar. The books are suitable for early middle-grade readers seeking humorous, character-driven stories.

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

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

3 books (1983–1990)

Lois Lowry's J.P. Tate series consists of three young adult science fiction books published between 1983 and 1990. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with The 100th Thing About Caroline, followed by Switcharound, and concluding with Your Move, J.P.!

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

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

2 books (1998–2020)

Lois Lowry's two-book non-fiction series consists of Looking Back: A Book of Memories, published in 1998, and On the Horizon, published in 2020. This complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with Looking Back. The books blend memoir with reflections on writing and life experiences from the acclaimed author known for her science fiction and young adult novels.

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

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

1 book (2009–2009)

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1	Crow Call 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1988–1999)

The Sam Krupnik series comprises four complete books published between 1988 and 1999, following the life and adventures of its young protagonist across different stages of growing up. Written by Lois Lowry, these books should be read in publication order: All About Sam, Attaboy, Sam!, See You Around, Sam!, and Zooman Sam. The series blends humor with coming-of-age themes as it traces Sam's development from childhood through his teenage years.

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

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

18 books (1977–2026)

Lois Lowry's collection of standalone novels spans nearly five decades, beginning with A Summer to Die in 1977 and continuing through 2024, with seventeen books published across science fiction, young adult, and nonfiction genres. Each novel stands alone as a complete story, though readers encountering Lowry's work for the first time may want to begin with her earliest publication and proceed in chronological order. The series remains ongoing, with individual titles such as Number the Stars, Gossamer, and The Silent Boy representing some of her most recognized works. These independent narratives showcase Lowry's range as a writer while maintaining her distinctive voice across multiple age groups and storytelling styles.

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

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1	A Summer to Die 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Autumn Street 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Taking Care of Terrific 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Us and Uncle Fraud 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Rabble Starkey 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Road Ahead 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	New Windmills 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Number the Stars 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Handle with Care 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Stay!: Keeper's Story 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Silent Boy 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Gossamer 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Birthday Ball 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Bless This Mouse 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Windeby Puzzle 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Tree. Table. Book. 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Building 903 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1993–2012)

Lois Lowry's The Giver quartet comprises four science fiction novels for young adults published between 1993 and 2012. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with The Giver and continuing through Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. While each book can stand alone as an individual story, reading them sequentially reveals deeper thematic connections across the interconnected narratives.

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

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

2 books (2008–2020)

The Willoughbys is a complete two-book series by Lois Lowry published over a twelve-year span from 2008 to 2020. Both novels should be read in publication order, beginning with The Willoughbys followed by The Willoughbys Return. This young adult science fiction series offers a finished narrative arc for readers seeking a concluded story.

Start with The Willoughbys and read in order.

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1	The Willoughbys 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Willoughbys Return 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible