The Giver by Lois Lowry
This Newbery Medal winner’s haunting story centers on 12 year-old Jonas living in a seemingly ideal world of conformity and contentment until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory and begins to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
Product dimensions: n/a
Publishing Info: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
ISBN - 13: 9780544336261
1994 Newbery Medal Winner
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.About the Author:
Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver. Her first novel, A Summer to Die, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Ms. Lowry lives in Maine. www. loislowry.com Twitter @LoisLowryWriter
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