Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults,
including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia
Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston
Globe–Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young
Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her
novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.
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Estrild is not like the other girls in her village; she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps her train in spite of his twisted back, also stands apart. In a world where differences are poorly tolerated, just how much danger are they in?
Inspired by the true discovery of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body in Northern Germany, Newbery Medalist and master storyteller Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron age world as she breathes life back into the Windeby child, left in the bog to drown with a woolen blindfold over its eyes.
This suspenseful exploration of lives that might have been by a gifted, intellectually curious author is utterly one of a kind. Includes several arresting photos of archeological finds, including of the Windeby child.
