The Giver: A Newbery Award Winner (Edition 25) (Paperback)

from REGoodrich

The Giver is a well-written dystopian story. Lois Lowry gradually and subtly opens the eyes of readers as they experience the mental and moral awakening of the main character, Jonas. The book brings about a greater appreciation for simple choices, joys, and freedoms many of us take for granted. T...

from Cait86

I am glad that I read Lowry's Number the Stars first, because I was very impressed with it, and I don't think I would have been if I had read The Giver first. Number the Stars is still a very good book, but The Giver is extraordinary! Jonas is about to become a Twelve, the age when all children a...

from lunacat

Jonas lives within a future community that is perfect. Each child is happy, each adult seemingly content within their vocation, each family carefully made up of a boy and a girl, and nothing is allowed to disrupt this idyllic life with everything firmly in its place. The only thing Jonas worries ...

from lunacat

Jonas lives within a future community that is perfect. Each child is happy, each adult seemingly content within their vocation, each family carefully made up of a boy and a girl, and nothing is allowed to disrupt this idyllic life with everything firmly in its place. The only thing Jonas worries ...

from drachenbraut23

"The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past." "They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them." "The worst part of ho...