Before the Hunger Games, before Divergent, before young adult dystopia became the next big thing, Lois Lowry published "The Giver." It's the story of a seemingly utopian society where there is no ...

Lois Lowry was writing dystopian young-adult books before dystopian young-adult books were all the rage. Like, pre-"Hunger Games." "The Giver," Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning 1993 novel, is brief, ...

When “The Giver” was first released in the mid-90’s it was a runaway success. In the nearly 30 years since its release, it has been seen in the hands of children around the world. While a dystopian ...

Since its publication in 1993, "The Giver" has become one of many simultaneously beloved and banned books of children's literature. But nearly 20 years after her first foray into the colorless and ...

Lois Lowry’s dystopian classic The Giver hasn’t been adapted as a graphic novel, but cartoonist Lucy Knisley gives us the next best thing. She has been illustrating brief moments from the book, ...

Like a lot of kids, the first time I read The Giver by Lois Lowry was right on cusp of adolescence, during that murky summer between 5th and 6th grade when you suddenly became responsible for some of ...

In her new book, The Windeby Puzzle, two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry combines both narrative history and fiction to imagine the life of an adolescent child from the first century whose remains ...

Authors can be notoriously tough movie critics, particularly of film versions of their work. Lois Lowry not only approves of the film adaptation of her book The Giver (out Friday), she wishes she'd ...