The giver

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The work The giver represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in South Whitley Community Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The giver

Statement of responsibility

Lois Lowry

Creator

• trueLowry, Lois
• Lowry, Lois

Subject

• Memory -- Juvenile fiction
• Liberty
• trueTwelve-year-old boys
• Memory
• Individuality -- Juvenile fiction
• Social control
• trueFar future
• Dystopias -- Juvenile fiction
• Science fiction
• Liberty -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• trueDystopias
• trueComing-of-age stories
• Individuality
• Social prediction
• trueDystopian fiction
• Young adult works
• Social control -- Juvenile fiction
• Dystopias
• trueClassics
• Social prediction -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• trueMemories

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• trueClassics
• Young adult works
• trueComing-of-age stories
• trueDystopian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives

Member of

• trueGiver quartet
• Giver quartet, 01

Theme

• trueAltered memories

Storyline

• trueWorld-building

Tone

• trueThought-provoking
• trueHaunting
• trueReflective

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Character

• trueCourageous
• trueAuthentic

Award

• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), Grades 6-9, 1995.
• Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio), Grades 6-8, 1997.
• Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Rosie Award), 1997.
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 6-8), 1996.
• Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High, 1996.
• Golden Duck Awards: Hal Clement Award for Young Adult
• Golden Sower Award (Nebraska), Young Adult, 1995.
• Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona), Teen Book Category, 1995.
• Great Stone Face Children's Book Award (New Hampshire), 1996.
• Land of Enchantment Book Award (New Mexico), General category, 1997.
• Maine Student Book Award, 1995.
• Newbery Medal, 1994.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 3-8, 1995.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 1996.
• Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma), Young Adult Books, 1996.
• Surrey Book of the Year Award (British Columbia), 1996.
• Virginia Readers' Choice Award for Middle School, 1996.
• William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas), 1996.
• Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Senior, 1996.
• ALA Notable Children's Book, 1994
• YALSA 100 Best Books, 1950-2000
• Great American Read, 2018.

Awards note

Newbery Medal, 1994.

Cataloging source

SMDRL

Dewey number

[FIC]

Index

no index present

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.L9673

LC item number

.G58 2014

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 9

Reading level

5.7

Series statement

The giver quartet series

Series volume

[book 1]

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

pre adolescent