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The giver / Lois Lowry.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0395645662 :
- Physical Description: 180 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Content descriptions
| Awards Note: | Newberry Medal 1993 |
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| Subject: | Conformity > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| La Conner Regional Library | YA FIC LOWRY | 98925 | TEEN | Available | - |
Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Readerâs Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Associationâs Childrenâs Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com