I love everything by her.

This book is perfectly sized and packs a huge message. Lowry's writing is so succinct, yet powerful. If you've read her other books, this won't disappoint.

The Silent Boy was extremely well written and easy to read. I suggest that this book would appeal to girls, starting as early as age 13, more than boys as it is about a doctor’s young daughter, Katy, and her aspirations to someday become a doctor like her father. The reader experiences how different life would have been for a family living in small town America vs. the difficulty families experienced irking out a living on a family farm. It is also about Katy’s life between ages 8-12 and how she is fascinated and driven to learn more about the younger brother of Peggy, a house maid who joins her family. The young man, Jacob, is described in the terms of that era as ‘touched.’ Today the term might be developmentally challenged. The era for the book was mainly 1908-1911 and a reader will experience a time so different than what life is like today in 2012. From that point of view, it is an educational experience for a perceptive young reader or an older adult venturing down memory lane. Senior Doctor-at-Bass. D. A.

This is a great book by Lois Lowry! It really encourages you to think deeply and develope friendships with the people in your life before it's too late! The end is really scary and sad but had a great lesson!!