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Summary from the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

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 society in which he lives.

Notes:

The Giver is an Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award winner, as is Speak. The determination of which book receives this award comes from a “Reading Team” comprised of members of the Oklahoma Library Association. You can find other information on this award here:

The Giver is a book that can best be explained in the Library of Congress Summary given above, among a few notations by others, in addition to some excerpts. In the opinion of many, including this organization, this book is a promotion for socialism – a utopian society through values changes.

The inside of the book jacket states:

Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative story of a boy who experiences something incredibly and undertakes something impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted (OFSA emphasis added) and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs (The Giver, book jacket).

Please visit http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/sgw1196.html for more information on this book.

"The Giver," ranked No. 11 on the American Library Association's most frequently challenged books of the 1990s (CNN news story, Retrieved from http://archives.cnn.com/2000/books/news/09/26/banned.books/).

There are Cliffs Notes to this book (see Cliffs Notes website).

Research by M. Lyn