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The Giver / by Lois Lowry.

By:

Lowry, Lois [Auteur.]

Series: Giver quartet ; bk. 1.Publication details: London : HarperCollins, 2014.Description: 224 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780007263516
0007263511

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

813.54 20

LOC classification:

PZ7.L9673 G58 2014

Awards:

Winner of the Newbery Medal.

Summary: In a rigidly structured society where weaklings, dissenters and the aged are removed, and stirrings of individuality are nullified with drugs, children undergo special ceremonies annually until, after eleven years, they face the Ceremony of Twelve, when the Community of Elders assigns them the tasks which will take them through their adult life. But when Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, he discovers that the honor of selection is nothing compared to the loneliness and physical pain he must endure as he searches for a way to free his community from the spiritless life it has developed for its members.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction	Dee Why Library	F LOWR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		R04274FSLGD

First published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1993].

For children.

In a rigidly structured society where weaklings, dissenters and the aged are removed, and stirrings of individuality are nullified with drugs, children undergo special ceremonies annually until, after eleven years, they face the Ceremony of Twelve, when the Community of Elders assigns them the tasks which will take them through their adult life. But when Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, he discovers that the honor of selection is nothing compared to the loneliness and physical pain he must endure as he searches for a way to free his community from the spiritless life it has developed for its members.

Winner of the Newbery Medal.

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