Shortly before the Pearl Harbor bombing caused the United States to enter World War II, Lowry and her family moved to the mainland. She and her mother and siblings spent the duration of the war with her mother's family in the Amish Country of Pennsylvania. "I remember all these relatively normal Christmases with trees, presents, turkeys, and carols, except that they had this enormous hole in them because there was never any father," Lowry told
AAYA. This feeling of loss during her early life, she explained, is "probably why I've written a terrific father figure into almost all of my books--sort of a fantasy of mine while growing up."
Lowry was an eager student, and learned to read at the age of three. "I became aware that letters had sounds and if you put them together they made words, and if you put the words together they made stories," she remembered in her Something about the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS) essay. Her skill set her apart from other children in her class, however: "I hate the games they play: one in particular, where they pretend to be elephants, holding their arms like trunks, and lumbering about in a line while the teacher plays elephant-marching music on the piano.
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