Autumn Street
0-395-27812-0OCLC 5946557 LC Class PZ7.L9673 Au The Giver Quartet The Anastasia Series The Sam Series The Tates Series The Gooney Bird Series Autobiographical Other
1980 novel by Lois Lowry
Autumn Street is a 1980 novel by two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry.[1]
Synopsis
There were things to be afraid of in the woods at the end of Autumn Street. But the year she went to live in her grandfather's big house in Pennsylvania—when her father went off to fight in World War II—Elizabeth couldn't put a name to those dark, shadowy fears. She was grateful for the reassurance of Tatie's strong, enveloping brown arms which held her when she needed comforting, and she relished her friendship with Tatie's grandson, feisty and streetwise Charles, who called her dumb old Elizabeth but didn't mean it, and who taught her to take risks. Together the two lonely children tried to interpret for each other an adult world, which was always puzzling and often cruel. Together, finally, on a day when snow obscured everything but terror, they left that world behind them and entered the world that was waiting in the woods.
Characters
- Elizabeth, protagonist, befriends Charles
- Jessica, Elizabeth's sister
- Charles, Tatie's grandson
- Tatie, servant of Elizabeth's house
- Grandmother, Elizabeth's stern grandma
- Grandfather, Elizabeth's fun loving grandpa
- Noah and Nathaniel, the twin brothers that live next door
See also
Novels portal
Children's literature portal
- Lois Lowry's Bibliography
References
- ^ Waldman, Katy (2021-12-26). "What Lois Lowry Remembers". New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
Bibliography
Lowry, Lois (1980). Autumn Street. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Novels by Lois Lowry
- The Giver (1993)
- Gathering Blue (2000)
- Messenger (2004)
- Son (2012)
- Anastasia Krupnik (1979)
- Anastasia Again! (1981)
- Anastasia at Your Service (1982)
- Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst (1984)
- Anastasia on Her Own (1985)
- Anastasia Has the Answers (1986)
- Anastasia's Chosen Career (1987)
- Anastasia at This Address (1991)
- Anastasia Absolutely (1995)
- All About Sam (1988)
- Attaboy, Sam! (1992)
- See You Around, Sam! (1996)
- Zooman Sam (1999)
- The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline (1983)
- Switcharound (1985)
- Your Move, J.P.! (1990)
- Gooney Bird Greene (2002)
- Gooney Bird and the Room Mother (2005)
- Gooney the Fabulous (2007)
- Gooney Bird Is So Absurd (2009)
- Gooney Bird On the Map (2011)
- Gooney Bird and All Her Charms (2013)
- Looking Back (1998)
- A Summer to Die (1977)
- Here in Kennebunkport (1978)
- Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye (1978)
- Autumn Street (1980)
- Taking Care of Terrific (1983)
- Us and Uncle Fraud (1984)
- Rabble Starkey (1987)
- Number the Stars (1989)
- Stay! Keeper's Story (1997)
- The Silent Boy (2003)
- Gossamer (2006)
- The Willoughbys (2008)
- Crow Call (2009)
- The Birthday Ball (2010)
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