A modern mobile crane with outriggers. The latticed boom is fitted with a gib. A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for lifting heavy things and transporting them to other places.
The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty.
MATT MCKEE. Lois Lowry concludes a classic story in a new book called Son. For 19 years, readers of Lois Lowryâs award-winning book The Giver have wondered how the story would end. This month, the fourth and final book in the series, Son, hit stores.Lowry sat down with TFK Kid Reporter Adriana Palmieri to talk about the complete series and her life as a writer. TFK:Son is the fourth and final book of a series that started with Newbery Medal winner, The Giver.ois Lowry concludes a classic story in a new book called Son. For 19 years, readers of Lois Lowryâs award-winning book The Giver have wondered how the story would end.