The giver / by Lois Lowry.
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce new children, who are assigned to appropriate family units: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. The community is a precisely choreographed world without conflict, inequality, divorce, unemployment, injustice...or choice. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas. Jonas is chosen for something special. He begins instruction in his life's work with a mysterious old man known only as the Giver. 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?--
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544340688
- ISBN: 9780544430785
- ISBN: 9780544336261
- Physical Description: 240 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston ; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Now a major motion picture"--Cover. Companion book to: Gathering blue, Messenger, and Son. Includes interviews with cast members of the movie based on the novel. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 7 8568. |
| Awards Note: | Newbery Medal, 1994. |
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| Subject: | Individuality > Fiction. Memory > Fiction. Social control > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Dystopian fiction. Novels. Science fiction. |
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