Pre-Owned The Silent Boy (Hardcover) by Lois Lowry

from porch_reader

I've read and enjoyed several of Lowry's books, including [The Giver], [Gathering Blue], and [Messenger], but those were all futuristic, dystopian novels. [The Silent Boy] is an entirely different genre. Set in 1910-1911, it can best be classified as historical fiction. It is the rare writer who ...

from ElizaJane

This is a fictional memoir of an elderly woman who tells the story of her Pre World War I childhood and in particular her relationship with a boy who was "touched". We are never told what was wrong with the boy (I think in a effort to not apply modern day labels) but from the symptoms I came to b...

from Yona

This topped four stars and may be rounded up to five in the near future. How does Lois Lowry write in such a calm easy manner, maintain such a relaxing hypnotic flow to the story and yet draw you in and make the characters come to life so well and elicit such strong and lingering emotions. The Gi...

from gaillamontagne

Story told through the eyes of Katy Thatcher who is the daughter of a town doctor in 1909. An intelligent child, she befriends a neighbor boy, Jacob, who is "touched" as people of this time frame label special needs people but Katy wants to communicate with him and has an understanding that surpa...

from hfuhriman

Set in small Pennsylvania community in the early 1900s, Silent Boy is the story of bright and curious Katy Thatcher, a doctor's daughter, and Jacob Stoltz, a farm boy, and brother of the Thatcher's hired girl, Peggy. Jacob is quiet, he never talks and has a special way with animals. Jacobs abilit...