Category - Fiction / Juvenile Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Like New
Listed - 8 months ago
Views - 14
Ships From - New Jersey
Est. Publication Date - Jul 2014
Seller Description
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. The community is a precisely choreographed world without conflict, inequality, divorce, unemployment, injustice . .. or choice. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas. At the Ceremony of Twelve, the community's twelve-year-olds eagerly accept their predetermined Life Assignments. But Jonas is chosen for something special. He begins instruction in his life's work with a mysterious old man known only as The Giver. Gradually Jonas lears that power lies in feelings. But when his own power is put to the test--when he must try to save someone he loves-he may not be ready. Is it too soon? Or too late?
Additional Information
The Giver
ISBN: 9780544336261
Publisher Description
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...
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