Autumn Street

Autumn Street

Author	Lois Lowry
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Children's
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	188 pages
ISBN	0-395-27812-0
OCLC	5946557
LC Class	PZ7.L9673 Au

Autumn Street is a 1980 novel by two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry.

Synopsis

There were things to be afraid of in the woods at the end of Autumn Street. But the year she went to live in her grandfather's big house - when her father went off to fight in World War II- Elizabeth couldn't put a name to those dark, shadowy fears. She was grateful for the reassurance of Tatie's strong, enveloping brown arms which held her when she needed comforting, and she relished her friendship with Tatie's grandson, feisty and streetwise Charles, who called her dumb old Elizabeth but didn't mean it, and who taught her to take risks. Together the two lonely children tried to interpret for each other an adult world -which was always puzzling and often cruel. Together, finally, on a day when snow obscured everything but terror, they left that world behind them and entered the world that was waiting in the woods.

Characters

• Elizabeth, protagonist, befriends Charles
• Charles, Tatie's grandson
• Tatie, servant of Elizabeth's house
• Grandmother, Elizabeth's stern grandma
• Grandfather, Elizabeth's fun loving grandpa
• Noah and Nathaniel, the twin brothers that live next door
• Lilian Chestnut, the family's maid

See also

• Lois Lowry's Bibliography

Bibliography

Lowry, Lois (1980). Autumn Street. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.