Preview the text below. in the textbox, identify the author and title of the text it came from, and date when it received a newberry medal. then analyze the features of the text and explain in the textbox how it is organized. how many paragraphs does it have? what type of text is it? is there dialogue?
introduction by lois lowry
it’s hard to believe that i wrote number the stars more than twenty years ago. it seems like yesterday that i answered the phone on a snowy january morning and received the news that it had been awarded the 1990 newbery medal.
most books published that long ago have faded into a pleasant, undisturbed retirement on dusty library shelves, or become an occasional topic for a research paper. but number the stars seems to have acquired its own long and vibrant life; not a day goes by that i don’t hear from a passionate reader of the book–some of them parents who remember it from their childhood and are now reading it with their own children.