A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: THe Giver and teens
Review: The Giver is an awesome novel that sends you to another world for the temporary time of reading the book; a world were everyone is the Same or gets the same. Where your jobs are assinged to you by the elders and money is nonexsistant. When it is time for you to leave the community b/c maybe you have finished you fullfillment there, you are relaesed. Jonas, a boy of twelve that is assigened to become a Reciever Of Memory, has his eyes opened to the reality of the world he is living in and the world beyond Sameness. He learns what release really is and how much the people in his community are missing out on. I had to read this book for Required reading and I am a 9th grader. I really enjoyed it and I think all the young people will.

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Summary: It's had an original idea.
Review: At first I thought the book would be a complete bore but once you begin to read you will be amazed in what kind of world they live in. You will discover the wonderful ideas in our wourld that we take for granted and realaze how thakful we are for them.

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Summary: a truely wonderful book...
Review: I recently read The Giver and i thought it was a wonderful book. I liked it because it was truley original and really made you think about things you might never have thought about before. Like, what it would be like to live in a Utopia-like world. Also, it really illistrates how nothing can be perfect--even such a seemingly perfect community has it's faults.

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Summary: A futuristic novel , suspense up to the end !
Review: After the first boring pages you almost cannot put it aside . It is set in a strange world where everything is predetermined . At first it seems to be an interesting way of life but more and more you get to know how it really is . The book is writen very realistic because you think , that you are a part of the action . It is only a pity that at the end there are still so many questions left. But all in all I have to say : Read it or you will regret it !!

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Summary: THE best book ever!!!!!
Review: I loved this book!!!! I read it last year when I was twelve, and it automaticly became one of my favorite books. It's great! I recomend it to anyone because it's sooo interesting. At the begining, it was really weird. At the end it was still weird, but it's a really cool book, like I said.

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Summary: Kudos, Lois, because this is my favorite book of all time!!
Review: Wow. Where do I begin describing a story as gripping and well written as Lowry's "The Giver"? As you already know, this is my favorite book. I just read it a few months ago and finished it in three days flat. I would have finished it sooner, but unfortunately, I didn't have every free moment to read. I dont't care what anyone says about the ending...it was great. Besides, with all this praise, I expect Lowry will write a sequel. I hope. I also reccomended this book to my mother, and she found it as enjoyable as I did. Please buy this book. Even though some classify it as sci-fi, I classify it as a novel reaching into a human soul, and pulling out real emotions in a world oblivious to feelings. Don't let this book pass you by.

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Summary: Good Enough
Review: This book really shows how a Nirvana would be. The only problem? The ending was very incomplete. Still, it should be read.

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Summary: a bizarre, yet wonderful book!
Review: i'm 14 years old, and had to read this book for school as a summer reading list assignment. i thought it would be boring, but it was great! it was easy to understand (even though the world they live in is way different than our modern world), and only takes a few days to read. trust me.. it's a great book!

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Summary: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK YOU HAVE TO READ!!!!
Review: The Giver is such a good book. It talks about the perfect world in which a person's whole life would revolve only in their own community. No one ever gets hurt, and everyone is in black and white. This book describes the Utopian world and how everything is just perfect. However, there is one person who sufffers it all---Jonas. He is the only one who can feel love, see color, have true feelings, etc. It must be very devastating for Jonas to be the only one out of his whole community. I really enjoyed this book and its creativity. All in all, this book is excellent. I read the book in one day! YOU HAVE TO READ I TO BELIEVE IT!!! =)

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Summary: I am only 13 and i loved this book!!!
Review: I read this book as a class asignment and it is one of the best books I have ever read! It is about a boy named Jonas who has been born in a community without war, pain, or suffering; but along wih that there was no love,feelings, or anything that would make people be different like color or persomality. At the "serimony of twelve" everything changes for him. He learns about the world from the Giver. One of my favorite parts in the book was when Jonas askes his parents if they loved him. They said no and that they appreciate his company instead of love. these eople even take pills to control their emotions. It is kind of a sad book, but I still loved it I gave it 5 stars!