{"id":876184,"date":"2026-10-09T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876184\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:18:15","slug":"the-giver-author-lois-lowry-is-out-with-a-new-dystopian-novel-called-building-903-nprs-book-of-the-day-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876184\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Giver&#8217; author Lois Lowry is out with a new dystopian novel called &#8216;Building 903&#8217; : NPR&#8217;s Book of the Day : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791541094_820_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3200x4797+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fab%2F2f%2F263a4d374e959edc65023aaaa3d7%2Flois-lowry-0199-edit.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Author Lois Lowery attends an event at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, Md.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Author Lois Lowry&#8217;s new novel, Building 903, is a return to young adult dystopian fiction.<\/p>\n<p>                    Jared Soares for NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<br \/>\n                i<\/p>\n<p>        Jared Soares for NPR<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791541095_296_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3200x4798+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd0%2F62%2Ff343f9dc438d9bec9aa8cf618215%2Flois-lowry-0104-edit.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Lowry is photographed against a red background with a slight yellow haze around her face.\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Lowry attends an event at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, Md.<\/p>\n<p>                    Jared Soares for NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<br \/>\n                i<\/p>\n<p>        Jared Soares for NPR<\/p>\n<p>Lois Lowry has written dozens of books for kids and young adults. There\u2019s the historical fiction novel Number the Stars about the Holocaust, the Anastasia Krupnik series and, of course, The Giver. That book launched a quartet, which wrapped in 2012. Lowry hadn\u2019t written another book set in a future dystopia \u2013 until now. In today\u2019s episode, NPR\u2019s Andrew Limbong speaks with Lowry about her new book Building 903, intergenerational relationships and the books that shaped her childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author Lois Lowry&#8217;s new novel, Building 903, is a return to young adult dystopian fiction. Jared Soares for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":["post-876184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}