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The Giver (The Giver Quartet)
By Lois Lowry
Book 1 of 4 in the
The Giver Quartet Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 8 | Y | 5.7 | 43617 |
It's a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie beneath…
Imagine a world without poverty, war or pain. A world where everything is comfortable and familiar - a world where everything is the same. No colour, no music. In such a world, Jonas is selected to be the next Receiver of Memory and is apprenticed to the Giver, an old man who stores memories from the Community’s past. As Jonas learns about violence and sadness, as well as beauty and joy, he discover the sinister truth behind his safe existence.
Simply and beautifully written, The Giver is a thought-provoking look at utopian society. It was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1994.
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780547995663
ISBN-10: 0547995660
Published on 9/25/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
Book Reviews (285)
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good book
I read this book in ELA for school. The Giver is a very good book. I like it because Lois Lowry has a good way with words. I like how Lois uses self-expression also. I would recommend this book to anyone.
I do NOT recommend this book some people might like it but personally I find it hard to follow
Your right everyone has there own opinions.Because I love this book hope you have a very great day 😜😎🤗.
It is a great book to encourage us to cherish what we have in our world right now, which is colorful and full of music, happiness, sadness, and variety of feelings. We can enjoy and appreciate all the achievement we make with our own, but not the arrangement from others to control our life, and make it dull and boring. I think the author would like to express his regrets about how our world is still full of limitations, which limit humans from doing more than they can, for example, we still can’t see any colors beyond infrared and ultraviolet. The author wanted to remind us that the limitation causes our blindness of another perception of the universe which is like the limitation that happen in the community described in the book. Maybe one day, what the author hope, will be someone that can go beyond the boundaries to show human another outside our own world that give humans the limitless or infinity of knowledge and feelings about life.
Actually, Lois Lowry is a girl.
this is a perfect example of a dystopian future. i totally recommend it. i feel that the giver was a smart man in giving Jonas the tools to succeed
The giver is awesome book!Jonas lives in a community that's perfect no war,pain,happiness.Until he works with The giver and hears/sees Music,Color,Animals (Etc...).That nobody else has seen and sees something so shocking that he released he has to do something.Also there's a movie that is nothing like the book.And it's a series that has 4 books so far📚.Anywho byeeeee😎
I like this book a lot but the ending isn't really what I hoped for. You fall in love with the characters and you will most of the time agree with the main character, Joans.
The giver is about a boy name Jonas in a world of perfectness. There is no color, no pain, no music, and no love. "The Elders" choose your job, your wife/husband, your children, and your children's name. Jonas is an 11 and is turning 12 were he with get his job/assignment. He has always been different and his occupation resembles that. This is definitely the best book I have read!
The Giver is a sad and amazing story about an 11 year old boy named Jonas, who lives in a community where everything is perfect. But, even if things are perfect, bad can still linger. When Jonas becomes a 12, he is excited to get his Assignment. Because everything is so orderly there, other people get to decide what their jobs are. 12 was the age when their job was assigned. It turns out, though, Jonas's job is special. One of a kind. And, one man called The Giver is the one who makes the job so special. Once Jonas knows what his job really is, he is filled with curiosity and eagerness, which leads him to things that he has never experienced before... and actions that he has finally had the courage to do.