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Having made her name with wacky family stories (the Anastasia Krupnik books) and won her first Newbery Medal with Number the Stars, a historical novel about the Danish rescue of Jews during World War II, Lois Lowry stepped into speculative fiction with The Giver and won her second Newbery. I'm not sure why I've missed reading it until now.
It's a bit difficult to tell the plot of this book without "spoilers;" suffice it to say that Jonas, the protagonist, lives in a community which, although high ...more
It's a bit difficult to tell the plot of this book without "spoilers;" suffice it to say that Jonas, the protagonist, lives in a community which, although high ...more
Read aloud to Rory in Sept. 2012. We are talking about reading the rest of the books in the series.
