Flashback Friday: The Giver

This week’s Flashback Friday: The Giver by Lois Lowry.

The Giver is one of those classic sci-fi novels that tops the Banned Book List annually and shocks parents everywhere for daring to talk about puberty and euthanasia.

The book wasn’t published when I was in middle school, being that it was published in 1993, so the first time I read it was the summer before my first year of teaching back in 2001. I read it because it was one of several books we’d be teaching that year (and for many years af...