Renowned children’s author Lois Lowry reads from her new middle grade novel The Birthday Ball

Thursday

04/22/10   7:00pm-8:00pm

Renowned children’s author Lois Lowry reads from her new middle grade novel The Birthday Ball

Flyleaf Books is honored to host two-time Newbery Award winner (for Number the Stars and The Giver) Lois Lowry, who will read from and sign her new book The Birthday Ball.  Lois has won numerous awards and has written many popular books, inc luding the Anastasia Krupnik books.  For ages 8 and up.  Illustrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning Jules Feiffer.

Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her sixteenth birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she escapes her fate--for a week. Disguised as a peasant, she attends the village school as the smart new girl, "Pat," and attracts friends and the attention of the handsome school master. Disgusting suitors, loveable peasants, and the clueless King and Queen collide at the ball, where Princess Patricia Pricilla calls the shots. What began as a cure for boredom, becomes a chance for Princess Patricia Priscilla to break the rules and marry the man she loves.