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The Giver by Lois Lowry

From Publishers Weekly
In the "ideal" world into which Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy and one girl. These children's adolescent sexual impulses will be stifled with specially prescribed drugs; at age 12 they will receive an appropriate career assignment, sensibly chosen by the community's Elders.
This is a world in which the old live in group homes and are "released"--to great celebration--at the proper time; the few infants who do not develop according to schedule are also "released," but with no fanfare.

Lowry's development of this civilization is so deft that her readers, like the community's citizens, will be easily seduced by the chimera of this ordered, pain-free society. Until the time that Jonah begins training for his job assignment--the rigorous and prestigious position of Receiver of Memory--he, too, is a complacent model citizen. But as his near-mystical training progresses, and he is weighed down and enriched with society's collective memories of a world as stimulating as it was flawed, Jonas grows increasingly aware of the hypocrisy that rules his world.

With a storyline that hints at Christian allegory and an eerie futuristic setting, this intriguing novel calls to mind John Christopher's Tripods trilogy and Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl. Lowry is once again in top form--raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers. Ages 12-14.

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one of the best books i've ever read..very inspiring and it changed the way i look at life..and the way i think..
it made me apreciate life more than ever

I've never read this one, I'll have to add it to my to-be-read list.

it's a really great book..a little sci-fi

Is it? That's ok I think, haven't read much sci-fi, but I don't think I'll mind it.

i haven't read that much sci-fi too..but i loved this book

this book is a must read for all !!! sooner or later your going to read it !! At first the book confuses you because the storyline is hard to understand at first. once you grasp it , its thrilling.

i totally agree..this book is a must read!!

exactly.

i really like how it shows that while people tried to make this world without war,pain and suffering they eliminated thier feelings and thier humanity

i know me too !!