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Original dystopia novel for YA, the one you remember!

The Giver Quartet #1
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
July 2014
On Sale: July 1, 2014
ISBN: 0547995660
EAN: 9780544336261
Kindle: B00AHG3UYA
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Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry
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"It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be
frightened."

Thus opens this haunting novel in which a boy inhabits a
seemingly ideal world: a world without conflict, poverty,
unemployment, divorce, injustice, or inequality. It is a
time in which family values are paramount, teenage rebellion
is unheard of, and even good manners are a way of life.

December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each
twelve year old receives a life assignment determined by the
Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of
the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant
Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for
something special. When his selection leads him to an
unnamed man -the man called only the Giver -he begins to
sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection
of his world.

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.