"Don't do that, Stephanie!" Tessa cringed, even though she was laughing, when she saw her friend put her thumbs into her ears, wiggle her finger, and make a silly tongue-out face toward the street-cam on the corner as they turned down the road that led to their houses.
Lowry, Lois. Building 903, p. 3.
The list was arranged alphabetically, and her name had always been preceded by her father's and followed by her brother's. Now, suddenly, the next name after hers was that of her mother: Virginia. And Theo was gone.
Lowry, Lois. Building 903, p. 56..
Today's Featured Book:
Building 903
by Lois Lowry
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Published: September 29, 2026
Page Count: 240 pages
Summary:
Twins Tessa and Theo live in a world ruled by the tyrannical Koziris, where there are no dangers or rebels... or so they've been told. In this world, citizens live long lives, and while many hate Koziris, they are comfortable and safe. So, when Tessa's brother disappears, nobody wants to discuss it. But then Miriam, their 135-year-old neighbor bound for the retirement community, slips Tessa a key—not only to her brother's disappearance, but to the source of all real magic . . . books. As Tessa and her parents begin their search for Theo, Tessa learns that books not only tell us stories—they open portals and unlock our humanity through our most powerful tool: the imagination. Once that truth has been revealed, Tessa won't be able to rest until she has retrieved her twin and society itself has been transformed.
Lois Lowry is a pioneer in writing about dystopias, and in Building 903, she shows us another one, a world where there are no museums, no libraries, no art, no stories. Tessa knows only this life, but her neighbor, being relocated by the state, changes everything when she gives Tessa a key to a locked closet.
Building 903 shows us the reasons people need books; Building 903 shows us why authoritarians want to ban books. Books open the mind to other experiences, other lives, other ways of existing, other ways of thinking. Building 903 reminds us of these things.
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