xg was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is one of America's most popular and versatile children’s book writers. She was a shy and introverted girl who loved to read. She decided to be a writer at 8 or 9. Her father was a dentist and an Army officer. Due to her father being an officer, they moved a lot which led Lois Lowry to go to school in Japan. She ended up graduating high School in New York at the age of nineteen. At the age of nineteen, she married and had four children. Those very important events of her life didn’t prevent her from continuing getting her high education. She graduated the University of Southern Maine and Brown University. The writing was always her passion while she was in school. Lois Lowry had happy …show more content…
Some of those stories carried information about difficulties, during WWII when the Nazis attempted to take over the world. One of those stories that were told by her Dutch friend about the Nazi times which gave her the idea to write a historical Fiction book titled Number the Stars. Number the Stars is based on a story told by Annelise Platt. Annelise described what her family went through during the war which Lois took and turned into a story.Her friend described the hardships and trial she and her family went through while the Nazis invaded most of the world. Annelise also told her about the loyalty of the dances to their king and country. Number The Stars is a girl's contribution to the resistance in Denmark. Annemarie Johansen, a 10-year old girl living in Copenhagen, faced the knowledge that the Nazis were “relocating” jews her good friend Ellen Rosen, who is also a neighbor and classmate, is Jewish. Through a series of small acts of bravery, Annemarie and her family helped the Rosens escape into neighboring Sweden, in a boat with a false bottom, operated by Annemarie's uncle. Annemarie ensure the Jews' safe passage when she had to deliver a package to her uncle, in the dark, because her mother had hurt her ankle and couldn’t walk. Annemarie successfully delivered the package and only later learns what could have happened had she not been able to dodge the soldiers who stop her in the woods. Once the war is over, Annemarie's parents informed her that her older sister, Lise, was part of the resistance movement and was killed for it. I the end Annemarie realizes that she too has helped Jews escape and feels proud to know and be friends with Ellen, even though she doesn't know if she'll ever see her friend