If Molly is adolescent perfection in its purest form – a beautiful, generous cheerleader – then Meg represents everything that is awkward or unsure about those years. Meg is a girl who doesn’t quite fit into her school, is jealous of her easygoing sibling, and is moody and impatient most of the time. The fact that it was written by a talented writer like Lois Lowry didn’t impress me at the time, and it wasn’t until years later when I had taught Lowry’s books as a middle school teacher – my favorite is actually Number the Stars - that I made the connection.Ī Summer To Die is about a smart, misunderstood girl named Meg whose sister Molly is dying from cancer.
But I do remember that I must have read it about forty times during my early teen years. I have no idea how I obtained A Summer To Die by Lois Lowry. I treated books the way that other teenage girls might deal with boys: I approached each one passionately but if a book betrayed me by boring or annoying me, it was gone from my life forever. Reading was my true passion, my only real true love during my early teen years. (I went on a Laura Ingalls Wilder binge, for example, for a few years during elementary school.) Usually, however, I started a book that I took out from either the town or school library or that I ordered from the rural book borrowing delivery program based on its description in that book’s catalog, and that book had to draw me in during the past few pages or I abandoned it. Sure, I had a few authors that I had liked over the years.
The Giver – or its quartet of related books - hadn’t been written or won the Newbery Award.įor the most part, I didn’t care about the reputation of a writer. When I was in junior high in the 1980s, I had no idea who Lois Lowry was.
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