Author: Lois Lowry
Illustrator: Lois Lowry
Awards: Newberry
Grade level: 3rd-6th
This book is about a dystopian society who has an elderly man known as the giver, this man stores all the memories of the past, including the good and bad. In their current society, there is no color, hunger, war, or even love. Everything in their society is controlled by the elders. They control who they marry, who they receive children from, as well as what jobs they get assigned at the age of 12. Jonah is given the job of the receiver, he will be with the giver every day and receive the memories of how the world used to be. Jonah realizes that their current society is awful and whats to give everyone the freedom that used to be.
This is one of the first novels my elementary school assigned as a class reading and I still love it! It is a very interesting book, and I will definitely have this book in my classroom. I chose the grade level between 3rd and 6th because there is some difficult vocabulary for younger children and younger children might not comprehend the story. An idea on how to use this book in my class would be to have students read this and have weekly discussions about what they have read and discovered.
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