The Giver
A Newbery Award Winner
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4.4 • 338 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas.
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. 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?
Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative story of a boy who experiences something incredible and undertakes something impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs.
The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. Don't miss the powerful companion novels in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal, this thought-provoking novel centers on a 12-year-old boy's gradual disillusionment with an outwardly utopian futuristic society; in a starred review, PW said, ``Lowry is once again in top form... unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers.'' Ages 10-up.
Customer Reviews
Amazing Book, Should be read by everyone.
I absolutely loved this book. It explains the detailed, consistent, same way of life in the community. This book created my own interest into the structure of the life we live today and brought upon personal philosophical curiosities. I believe this story is educational and offers specifically students and readers the positive opportunity to reach outside of what is normal into what is possible, or of the past, or unusual. The Giver is incredibly written and I couldn’t stop reading it. Please read this if you haven’t!
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It’s too short
198 pages
Ignore the bad reviews
One review in particular talks about how the dystopian community they live in as no regard to those who are different. IT IS S DYSTOPIAN NOVEL WHERE THE RULING AUTHORITIES BELIEVE THAT BEING THE SAME EQUALS HAPPINESS SO OFC THEY HAVE NO REGARD FOR THE DIFFERENT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT BEING DIFFERENT IS BAD. This same review talks about how they kill babies to once again BE THE SAME. So to explain I want that reviewer to realize that in this society everyone must be the same and that they are trained to do this. I can understand why you think that is wrong. However, you have not tried to understand why they do this which is stupid. You need to try to understand the book as a whole and when reading a dystopian novel u should try to understand the society in which they live, which you did not. THIS IS NOT AN INAPPROPRIATE BOOK. IT CONTAINS NOTHING INAPPROPRIATE FOR KIDS AS I KNOW SIXTH GRADERS READING THIS AT SCHOOL. Once again, this is a dystopian novel with a different type of society. Please understand this when reading a dystopian novel like this and when leaving a review. Thank you