Bless This Mouse

Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik and Gooney Bird series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Readers Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver. Her first novel, A Summer to Die, was awarded the International Reading Associations Childrens Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and a farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com.

Table of Contents

A Bad Time for Babies! 1

Praying for Protection 10

Hildegarde Holds a Meeting 21

Hiding from Father Murphy 32

A Nighttime Raid 45

The Great X 60

Yikes! Outdoors! 71

Ignatious Explains the Horrors 83

Brave Volunteers Needed! 94

One Mouse is Missing! 106

Poor Lucretia! 120

The Blessing of the Animals 137