It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Lois Lowry in A Summer to Die

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Lois Ann Lowry (; née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in...

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