I absolutely loved this touching middle grade read about two Sophies who live next door to each other. One is 11 and one is 88. When the younger Sophie catches wind of the older Sophie potentially having to move to a home due to memory issues, she decides to give her some cognitive testing and through this she hears stories from Sophie's childhood in Poland during WWII. The friendship between these two was just so wonderful and I would highly recommend this book to readers of all ages.
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

I am a long time Lois Lowry fan. I grew up reading her stories, especially the Giver. I was so excited to be chosen to review this ARC. In this wonderful story and young girl befriends and older lady in their building. They are best friends. When the older Sophie starts struggling with life and doing simple things her son mentions her leaving to have to be taken care of. Young Sophie is determined to help save her friend, improve her memory and take care of her. With the help of her friends they set out to help older Sophie. What they didn’t expect was to learn along the way. They listen to the stories she has to tell and learn about so many things, such as love, war and life.
This is an amazingly heartwarming story. Your emotions will grab you with this one. I felt so involved in knowing all about older Sophie and how to save her. I didn’t expect to learn from the story too. It shares the important message of holding onto memories and sharing those memories as well. I have had the same situation as I grasped onto all I could from family before their memories and they were gone.
A very meaningful and inspiring book that I will share with any child, or adult, that I can. Truly another masterpiece. You are going to want to cuddle up and read this enduring story.

I was excited to read the latest from Lois Lowry. This handled a young girl’s special friendship with her elderly neighbor who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. The story handles a tricky topic well, and helps portray a child’s perspective on the prospect of losing a friend. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, Lois Lowry did not disappoint.

This book is a heartwarming and relatable story about a girl and her best friend, an elderly neighbor at the beginning stages of dementia. While Sophia tries to help her friends and fix their problems, she learns about herself and realizes what it means to be a true friend. No surprise that Lois Lowry delivers a wonderfully sincere story that is both simple and profound.

A Lowry tour de force;' clever, intriguing, and causes reflection. It will be very popular. A clever use of characters that enables young people to empathize and gain an understanding of differences.

Lois Lowry, the author of many books including The Giver and Number the Stars has a new book coming out for preteens. Tree. Table. Book. is a book about friendship, trust and sharing. A cleverly written plot brings together a young girl Sophie and her elderly neighbor, Sophie.

They build a friendship on sharing tea and stories. Young Sophie is very scientifically minded and does not have many friends and her neighbor Sophie is living alone, aging and showing signs of dementia. Sophia’s son is planning to move her away to assisted living. Young Sophie wants to test Sophie’s cognitive abilities with the Merck Manual.

Giving Sophie three words to remember and repeat back, sets Sophie off on memories from her childhood growing up in Europe at the outbreak of World War II. This is a wonderful story written very realistically with a young narrator’s voice. The Holocaust is written about in an understated way that is easy to read. It is a small part of the story. The main thrust of the plot is how to treat friends with caring and acceptance.

I loved this story of the relationship between an elderly woman named Sophie and a preteen girl also named Sophie. When the elder Sophie starts showing signs of dementia, her son decides to move her near him. Young Sophie doesn't want her to leave so she decides to prove him wrong! It's has sad moments and laughable moments! I loved it!

This story is about a young girl named Sophie and an older neighbor lady named Sophie they have become excellent friends. Unfortunately, the older Sophie is having some trouble as of late and her young friend is determined to keep her as her neighbor. This book covers a gauntlet of issues, dementia, the holocaust, autism, and friendship. I enjoyed the book and found the writing interesting. I'm not sure why it started off as a how-to-write a narrative, to just a story I don't think that part was really tied up at the end of the book. Otherwise, it was an enjoyable book.

A short book packed full of emotion. Lois Lowry knows how to write amazing novels, and this one is no exception. You learn so much about the characters in such a short amount of reading, and that's how you know you're dealing with a master author. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

This is a story about a preteen girl who has a very close friend who is an octogenarian. Both are named Sophie.
Older Sophie is slowly loosing her memory and her son wants her to move in with him out of state. Younger Sophie has obtained a copy of a cognitive test that tests for dementia. She is determined to help older Sophie to pass the test so she does not have to leave.
The name of the book comes from one of the subtests where older Sophie has to remember three unrelated words over a period of time. She continually fails this subtest. To help Sophie remember the unrelated words, younger Sophie has Sophie tell a story related to each of the words. Sophie's long term memory is not affected and she tells story from her past related to each word. Tree, Table. and Book.
The stories are reminiscent of Lois Lowry's Giver series and the importance of passing stories down..
This was an excellent book.

This book has my heart. Lowry has woven a tale of friendship, memories, and honest history, told through the eyes of a precocious and instantly lovable protagonist. A young girl’s friendship with an aging neighbor unlocks stories from her past that help the young girl understand her friend, her world, and herself. This is another instant Lowry classic.

Sophie Winslow, 11 years old, is best friends with 88 year old Sophie Gershowitz. The friendship is unconventional but it works. Both Sophies enjoy having tea time together and talking about life and laughing together. One day Sophie Winslow overheard her parents mention the word dementia referring to her best friend. Sophie W. researches, she loves to research, she finds out how to test for this dreaded disease and proceeds to perform a number of cognitive test in the form of questions to help prove her friend does not have dementia. She is aided by her other best friend/neighbor Ralphie and her quirky seven year old neighbor Oliver. As the questions advance Sophie shares a number of stories regarding her life that she has never told anyone. Even though her memory is fading her past is vivid and captivating. Sophie W. learns a number of valuable lessons about friendship and the surprises that come to life when all seems hopeless. This book is thought provoking and special at highlighting the relationship between multigenerational people. Friendship always stands the rest of time.

Thanks to netgalley for the ARC! 3.5 stars While this book did come together and share some lovely and heartbreaking memories from older Sophie to younger Sophie, I felt like it took a bit too long to come together. The beginning seemed kind of scattered, and I couldn’t figure out where the book was heading for a bit. Once I could see where the elder Sophie was heading in terms of her aging and memories, it felt like a good read. Before that, I just felt like it was a little all over the place with the younger Sophie sharing things that didn’t seem to mesh together. Overall, I did end up enjoying the book to an extent, but it’s definitely not one of my favorites from this author or for young people lately.

I loved reading Lowry's books when I was younger. I remember several being very profound and sticking with me. This one is no different. It was a heartwarming story that I have no issues recommending to all readers. Three words, simple, but so profound. Lowry did such a good job of making me feel like there was an eleven year old next to me telling me this story. I laughed often, cried, and just loved the story.

This would be a great if you have a kid who is struggling with an elderly friend or loved one who is suffering from memory loss.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins Children’s Books for this DRC.
Eleven-year-old Sophie is best friends with 88-year-old Sophie, her neighbor. Young Sophie overhears that Sophie has been struggling with memory issues. She borrows a Merck in order to help her pass a dementia test. Instead, she opens Sophie’s memories of being a young Jewish girl in Poland during WWII.

It’s about forgetting and remembering and loving, friendship and holding on and letting go. It was beautiful and soft and tender but also hard and sharp.
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Tree. Table. Book. was even more touching and quietly profound than I expected, which is saying something as I have long held a special place in my heart for Lois Lowry’s novels.

This story is more approachable than The Giver or Number the Stars, so it will work for younger MG readers or readers who are working on their comprehension and decoding (while still being meaningful!).

In short, this is the story of two Sophies separated by an age gap of over seventy years but bound by a fierce friendship. When the elder Sophie begins having memory problems, the younger Sophie decides to take things into her own hands. You’ll have to read to discover what beautiful stories come out of this special friendship.

What a sweet and poignant story! I love the friendship between Sophie Sophia. This is a good story to give kids a gentle introduction to the horrors of WWII. It would pique their curiosity and allow them to dig deeper on their own.

In another touching, thoughtful story by Lois Lowry, two Sophies help one another understand the passages life takes us through. Eleven year old Sophie is best friends with 88 year old Sophie Gershowitz. While trying to help her elderly friend, the younger Sophie asks questions that lead the older Sophie to recall some of the most touching memories of her childhood in Poland during World War II.
The stories of family ties and friendships lead the reader to examine the feelings we all have in common. This is Lois Lowry's unique mastery- weaving commonalities of feelings, compassion for others, and the power of kindness into her warm, bittersweet stories..

This was a really cute read and seemed to perfectly introduce a really hard topic for the age group. I enjoyed the inclusion of neuro-divergent characters; it really pushed the point of inclusivity. Even though the Holocaust isn't mentioned, this book would open up opportunities to talk about that time in history in a way that a young person might understand. The book left me wanting to know more about older Sophie's life after leaving her mother and sister, but I felt that the abrupt back and forth between the past and the present really helped to convey the older Sophie's state of mind.
This story is about forgetting, but also about intentionally remembering the things we shouldn't forget.

I adored Tree. Table. Book. As told through the eyes of an 11-year-old named Sophie. It's a beautiful unlikely story of a relationship between neighbors. Sophie, the narrator, best friend lives across the street is also named Sophie but she's 88 years old. It's a short and sweet story of a woman starting to suffer from dementia and Sophie's imaginative attempt to prove the adults wrong. Through Sophie's cognition test, her 88-year-old friend shares poignant memories from her past growing up in Poland as a Jewish girl during WWII.

Although this book is written for middle grades, I would love it if Lowry expanded the story for an older reader. I found myself wanting to know more. For the dialogue to continue into greater depth between the two characters, as Sophie talks for the first time about her childhood in Poland. How did she get to the US? What happened to her family?