| Authors: |
Lois Lowry
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| Material type: |
Books |
| Language: |
English |
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| Year: |
1993 |
| ISBN: |
0395645662 9780395645666 |
| Series: |
Giver quartet
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5 out of 5: They loved it |
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Short easy read by sldavis |
| 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. |
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favorite by Test Patron |
| great book! |
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It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. by zoet |
| Jonas lives in a predictable, controlled and safe community of the future. Everything is perfectly pleasant and as Jonas is soon to find out, perfectly empty. You see Jonas has just turned 12 and on his twelfth birthday in this society his future career will be revealed. Jonas does not get allocated a standard vocation like nurturer or caretaker of the old, he is instead given the solitary and extremely rare position of receiver. This role is entrenched in secrecy and Jonas soon finds himself at odds with everything he knew of the world. ----- I haven't enjoyed a book this much in ages and ages, excellent read. |
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