The giver
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544336261
- ISBN: 9780385732550 (pbk)
- ISBN: 9780395645666
- ISBN: 0395645662
- ISBN: 0440219078
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Physical Description:
180 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Newbery Medal book, 1994. |
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Subject: | Dystopias Fiction Memory Fiction Social prediction Fiction Social control Fiction Liberty Fiction Individuality Fiction |
Genre: | Science fiction. |
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- 3 of 5 copies available at Kenton County. (Show)
- 3 of 5 copies available at Kenton County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | YA LOWRY L (Text) | 33126022811602 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Covington Branch | YA LOWRY L (Text) | 33126023950029 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | YA LOWRY L (Text) | 33126022206498 | YA Fiction | Checked out | 04/22/2024 |
Independence Branch | YA LOWRY L (Text) | 33126022811578 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | YA LOWRY L (Text) | 33126024830899 | YA Fiction | Checked out | 04/02/2024 |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 1993 May
Gr 6-9-- In a complete departure from her other novels, Lowry has written an intriguing story set in a society that is uniformly run by a Committee of Elders. Twelve-year-old Jonas's confidence in his comfortable ``normal'' existence as a member of this well-ordered community is shaken when he is assigned his life's work as the Receiver. The Giver, who passes on to Jonas the burden of being the holder for the community of all memory ``back and back and back,'' teaches him the cost of living in an environment that is ``without color, pain, or past.'' The tension leading up to the Ceremony, in which children are promoted not to another grade but to another stage in their life, and the drama and responsibility of the sessions with The Giver are gripping. The final flight for survival is as riveting as it is inevitable. The author makes real abstract concepts, such as the meaning of a life in which there are virtually no choices to be made and no experiences with deep feelings. This tightly plotted story and its believable characters will stay with readers for a long time. --Amy Kellman, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Copyright 1993 Cahners Business Information.