The Giver
Written by Lois Lowry
Published in
About "The Giver"
Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.
Genres
- Young Adult
- Fiction
- Classics
- Dystopia
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- School
- Childrens
- Middle Grade
- Read For School
- Newbery Medal (1994)
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (1994)
- Golden Duck Award for Young Adult (Hal Clement Award) (1994)
- Garden State Book Award for Teen Fiction Grades 6-8 (1996)
- Buckeye Children's Book Award for Grade 6-8 (1997)
- Grand Canyon Reader Award for Teen Book (1995)
- Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award for Grade 6-9 (1995)
- Golden Sower Award for Young Adult (1995)
- Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award for Grades 3-8 (1995)
- Soaring Eagle Book Award Nominee (1996)
- Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Senior (1996)
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nominee for Fiction (1993)
- New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award (1997)
- Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (1997)
- William Allen White Children's Book Award (1996)
- Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Nominee (1996)
- NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature Nominee (2013)
- Oklahoma Sequoyah Award for YA (1996)
- Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (1996)
- Hea Lasteraamat (2010)
- Premi Protagonista Jove for Categoria 13-14 anys (2016)
- Margaret A. Edwards Award (2007)