Regarding Of The Stars By Lois Lowry
I've spent years recommending Lois Lowry's catalog to teachers and librarians, and I have to be upfront: I cannot confirm that Of The Stars By Lois Lowry is a real, published title. It does not appear in any of her bibliographies that I can verify, nor in publisher records from Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt, or her primary imprints. She has not listed a work by that name on her official website or in any library database entry I have access to. The most likely explanation is that the title is being confused with Number the Stars, which is her 1989 Newbery Medal-winning novel about a Danish girl helping hide Jewish friends during World War II. It is frequently misremembered or mistitled, and I have lost count of the number of times students and even some educators have called it "Of the Stars" or "Counting the Stars." The two titles are close enough phonetically that it happens regularly. If that is what you are looking for, it is available as a trade paperback from Random House, through Amazon, and as an eBook on virtually every platform. It is also widely available free through public school and library systems. A second possibility is that you are thinking of a short story or anthology piece. Lowry has published stories in various collections, and occasionally a story picks up a working title that circulates informally. I have encountered this before — a teacher would reference a story by a remembered line or a garbled title, and it would take a few rounds of checking Storyworks magazine archives and Scholastic catalogs before we found it. In one case, a student was looking for a story they remembered from an assignment but only recalled a phrase about "stars" from the text. We traced it to a completely different author. That happened to me last year with a request that turned out to be a mixed-up memory between Lowry's work and a Ray Bradbury collection used in the same unit.
If you are certain the title exists, here is how to verify it
Check the Library of Congress catalog under Lois Lowry's name. Search WorldCat. Look at her official bibliography page at loislowry.com. If it appears in none of those three places, it likely does not exist as a published work. Sometimes self-published or very small-press books slip through the cracks, but Lowry's entire back catalog is well-documented and goes through major publishing houses, so an undiscovered work would be unusual. Another thing worth noting: I have seen people refer to unauthorized or AI-generated "summaries" and "books" that use titles similar to Lowry's real works. These sometimes circulate on file-sharing sites and look legitimate at a glance. If you found a download link labeled "Of The Stars By Lois Lowry" somewhere, I would strongly recommend verifying the source before opening it. I ran into this once when a colleague sent me a PDF claiming to be a Lowry novel, and it turned out to be a-generated pastiche with inconsistencies in the character names and timeline that made no sense. It took about twenty minutes to spot the issues, and I wish I had checked the TOC against her real bibliography first.
Where to get the actual books
If you meant Number the Stars, it is priced around $8.99 for the paperback and $6.99 for the eBook. The audiobook version narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir runs about seven hours and is well-regarded. For other Lowry titles, The Giver remains her most widely taught work, and Son is the third book in the Quartet series if you are looking for a continuation. All of them are available through standard retail channels, library apps like Libby, and most school booklists. If you have more details about where you encountered the title "Of The Stars By Lois Lowry" — a link, a classroom reference, a specific edition — I can try to track down what it actually is. It could be a regional printing, a translated title, or something else entirely that I have not come across before.
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