The Giver
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- Publishing year : May 2011
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780007341764
- Imprint : Harper Collins
- Age Group : Young Reader
- Language : English
It's a perfect world, where everything looks right but ugly truths lie beneath the surface It is the future. There is no ...
It's a perfect world, where everything looks right but ugly truths lie beneath the surface It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in The Community wants for anything. Everyone is provided for. Each Family Unit is entitled to one female and male child. Each member of The Community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders, and they never make a mistake. Jonas, a sensitive twelve-year-old boy, had never thought there was anything wrong with his Community, until one day. From the moment Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory at The Ceremony, his life is never the same.
LOIS LOWRY, author of over thirty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal for The Giver and Number the Stars,was born on the 20th of March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. She went to Brown University, but left to get married and a raise a family. She settled in Maine, and returned to college receiving a degree from the University of Southern Maine. She fulfilled a childhood dream when she started writing in the 1970s.