The Giver: A Newbery Award Winner

· Giver Quartet Book 1 · Sold by HarperCollins
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In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas.

Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Gradually Jonas learns that power lies in feelings. But when his own power is put to the test—when he must try to save someone he loves—he may not be ready. Is it too soon? Or too late?

Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative story of a boy who experiences something incredible and undertakes something impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs.

The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. Don't miss the powerful companion novels in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

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9.15K reviews
A Google user
April 14, 2009
"The Giver" could not be said as one of my favorite books. I may be a star and all that but that doesn't mean I love all books. The world was too different than ours. I can see why it won the Newbery Medal but I absolutley HATED the ending. I wish that they told us what happened to Jonas and Gabe. I read it as a book report because for book club, we had to do a book by an author who wrote a book club book. One of our book club books was "Number The Stars" author of "The Giver" and I ordered this one from the Lois Lowry pack. I do not recommended this book for readers who do not like "new worlds" or "different places" so I would rate this book a 3.
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Klario Zavala
October 25, 2014
Quick read it's not very long. I like the concept of the book and there are some hard hitting themes, but I find this book to be a bit of a mild version of Huxley's: Brave New World or Orwell's: 1984. With the exception that this book leaves off in a cliff hanger that I didn't really like. A bit if a goodie two shoes ending left to the imagination. I find the previously mention titles do a better job of closing off. Would recommend either &/or both to anyone who appreciated this read. Nice overall.
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TheWalrusAl- Gaming and More
September 11, 2019
Spoilers This is a okay book at first. You don't suspect anything would go wrong then....Jona's father kills a newborn. You realize the community's' releasing is just slaughtering and I hate the darkness of it! Its so wrong and awful! Its weird too, why do they create artificial families known as family units in the community? Why isn't it normal? It never explains. It is a harsh, cruel, and depressing world that shouldn't be given to others minds in a form of a book. Just be more light hearted Lois Lowry, maybe you can make better experiences.
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About the author

Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.

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