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Bookish asked Lois Lowry:

I am a big fan of The Giver. Our library system now collects it in our regular circulating collection and our Classics collection. It's recommended or required reading at many schools. Did you ever imagine that it would become such a huge success? To what do you attribute its widespread appeal?

Lois Lowry I think its appeal comes for the fact that it asks questions about our world, makes us think, makes us feel
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Several pro-life organizations have promoted your story as being life affirming. Did you have the abortion or assisted suicide issues in mind when you wrote "The Giver"?

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Julie Brown asked Lois Lowry:

Lois, I love using The Giver, Number the Stars, and more of your books in the classroom with my students. I am curious, though, why you let them change The Giver for the film? Not that it's a bad thing, I'm just wondering what led to that decision. Thanks, and I hope that you keep writing forever!

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