The giver
Lowry, Lois1993
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It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in The Community wants for anything. Everyone is provided for. Each Family Unit is entitled to one female and male child. Each member of The Community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders, and they never make a mistake.Jonas, a sensitive twelve-year-old boy, had never thought there was anything wrong with his Community, until one day. From the moment Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory at The Ceremony, his life is never the same. Jonas discovers that The Community is not as perfect as it seems. Although they appear to have everything, they are missing something of great importance. It is up to Jonas, with the help of the Giver, to find what long ago had been lost. And so Jonas embarks on an adventure to save the world as he knows it.
Main title:
The giver / Lois Lowry.
Author:
Lowry, Lois, author
Imprint:
Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.©1993.
Collation:
180 pages ; 22 cm.
Series title:
Giver quartet ; n1.PRC 7to9
Notes:
Now a major motion picture.Any two books from this series may be read as Challenge books and up to five more can be read as personal choice books. Go to the online booklists for the PRC ID of the individual books in this series.
Audience:
Secondary
Awards:
Newbery Medal (1994), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (1994), Golden Duck Award for Young Adult (Hal Clement Award) (1994), Garden State Book Award for Teen Fiction Grades 6-8 (1996), Buckeye Children's Book Award for Grade 6-8 (1997) Grand Canyon Reader Award for Teen Book (1995), Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award for Grade 6-9 (1995), Golden Sower Award for Young Adult (1995), Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award for Grades 3-8 (1995), Soaring Eagle Book Award Nominee (1996), Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Senior (1996), Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nominee for Fiction (1993), New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award (1997), Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (1997), William Allen White Children's Book Award (1996), Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Nominee (1996), NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature Nominee (2013), Oklahoma Sequoyah Award for YA (1996), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (1996)
ISBN:
9780385732550 (paperback)9780007263516 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
Boys -- FictionMemory -- FictionIndividuality -- FictionLiberty -- FictionSocial control -- FictionSocial prediction -- FictionDystopias -- FictionDiscovery (Topic Area, HSC English), 2015-2020Books to moviesPremier's reading challenge -- grades 7to9Science fictionFantasy fictionDystopian fictionYoung adult fiction
BRN:
106634
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More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Teenage Fiction | LOWRY n1 | Onloan - Due: 18 Nov 2024 |