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While technically a Young Reader novel, The Giver should be required reading for all adults as well — that is, if you haven’t read it already. This powerful and provocative story centers around Jonas, who lives in a seemingly perfect society, with no pain, suffering, grief, and also, no color. It is only when he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory that those fragile walls around him begin to crumble. This Newbery Medal-winning dystopian classic is a transformative read, opening the eyes of its readers to larger questions around the virtues of freedom.
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. 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. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
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