The giver / Lois Lowry.
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. The community is a precisely choreographed world without conflict, inequality, divorce, unemployment, injustice.....or choice. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas. At the ceremony of Twelve, the community's twelve-year-olds eagerly accept their predetermined Life Assignments. But Jonas is chosen for something special. He begins instruction in his life's work with a mysterious old man known only as The Giver. 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?
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- ISBN: 9780544336261
- ISBN: 0544336267
- Physical Description: xiii, 225 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [1993]
- Copyright: ©1993
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Target Audience Note: | 760L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 7.0 8568. Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 7 8568. |
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Cass County Library-Harrisonville | J LOW 1993 (Text) | 0002205505221 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | LOW (Text) | 33042004918242 | Teen Fiction | Checked out | 05/08/2024 |
Caruthersville Public Library | SPN F LOW (Text) | 38417100437542 | Spinner Rack | Available | - |
Doniphan-Ripley County Library | J F LOWER (Text) | 38421100809007 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Dulany Memorial Library | YA LOW (Text) | 35712001523884 | YA | Available | - |
Neosho Newton - Neosho | 1994 (Text) | 34162001619475 | Newbery | Available | - |
Neosho Newton - Neosho | LOWRY, LOIS (Text) | 34162001619327 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Neosho Newton - Neosho | LOWRY, LOIS (Text) | 34162001877065 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Reynolds County Library - Bunker Library | YA LOW (Text) | 3247100442412 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Reynolds County Library - Centerville Branch | J LOW (Text) | 3247100065524 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |