![]() ![]() In 1952, Lowry entered Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where she finished high school. ![]() The family briefly moved back to Carlisle in 1950, where she attended ninth grade, but in 1951, they moved to Governor's Island, New York, where she attended Curtis High School on Staten Island. Lowry attended a special school for military families, but she felt stifled by a curriculum that did not challenge her creatively. ![]() In 1948, the Hammersberg family moved again to Tokyo, Japan. In fact, these teachings were so impactful that Lowry was able to skip the first grade entirely. Her mother read to her nightly, and her older sister Helen shared her knowledge about letters and words starting at just three years old. During these early years in Carlisle, Lowry became more and more interested in writing, receiving a subscription to a children’s writing magazine, Jack & Jill. Lowry's younger brother Jon was born that same year. She attributed this precociousness to her mother, a kindergarten teacher, and to her older sister Helen, who read to her. When six-year-old Lois entered the Franklin School in Carlisle, she had already been reading for three years. Hammersberg, an army dentist, was called off to duty. In 1939, they moved to Brooklyn, New York, and then they moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1942, when the US entered World War II. ![]() Hammersberg and Katherine Landis in Honolulu, Hawaii. Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, to Robert E. ![]()
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