A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: The Greatest Book.
Review: This a book everyone has to read. Young, and Old If your looking for a good book read this one. It's a book of supposely might happen in the future and it dosn't look to good, all I can say is that it's very organized.

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Summary: This book was very exciting, a tad confusing at times.
Review: After reading this book, The Giver, I can say that I really enjoyed it, and would recommend it to anyone. This book tells about a perfectly planned community. The community was planned from their jobs to their families. I also liked the one part of the story when a kid named Jonas, who became the new receiver of memory, tried to escape from the community and save a baby's life. The receiver of memories is someone who gives memories of events that happened before the community was perfect to the new receiver of memory. He also tells the Chief Elder what to do when the Chief Elder doesn't know how to settle something. This book would be enjoyed by anyone who is imaginative and likes excitement.

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Summary: The answer to the question "what if everyone was the same?"
Review: Many people wish for total equality among people. I think that this book captures that feeling in a frightening way. After reading this book, you can imagine the way life would be if our futures were predetermined all in the name of equality. It made me grateful for all the differences that we do have, and for the ability to make our own choices and mistakes. A powerful book for any age group.

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Summary: Enter a world of love and hate.
Review: The Giver is a book that is based on the future. In this future there lives a boy named Jonas. Jonas soon learns that in this world he receives no love and feels no feeling of sympathy or respect. He soon gets a job in which he learns that there once was a time in the past where parents gave their children love and where you were aloud to have more than one brother or sister. He soon learns of what it means to love and begins to fall in love with a baby who he will soon save the life of. When you read this book you will enter a world of love and hate.

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Summary: A School Assignment That I Actually Enjoyed
Review: I read this book in sixth grade. We had three books to choose from and I chose The Giver because my teacher said it was the hardest to read and because I had heard of it before. I always try to stay on pace when reading a book since we take quizes every once in awhile. But after the first few chapters I gave up. I went ahead and finished the book. It is so shocking and surprising. I now own the book and have read it many times, and my mom has read it too. I am now in the proccess of getting my dad to read it. I think this book is worthy of being made into a movie like The Outsiders, Shiloh, and other children's books.

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Summary: A thought-provoking look at current issues!
Review: While many reviewers state that this is an adult book, not children's literature, I disagree. Our children are a lot smarter than most of us give them credit for. This book deals with confusing issues in a way that allows children to see that adults don't have all the answers and that it's ok to be uncertain. Children are given a discreet look at adult issues in a manner that helps them to make sense of the world around them.

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Summary: Breathtaking.
Review: This book seemed like a normal time and place in the beggining, but eased into confusion as the book proggresed. An outstanding book for children and adults.

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Summary: A wonderful book.
Review: This book was great! It got into deeper issues and you began to understand this world, and how lucky we are to live the way we do.

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Summary: You absolutley MUST read this book!!
Review: I have read this book many times. It is enthralling and the writing is one of a kind. The plot, a boy in an enclosed sphere of a world where everything is the same, is not confusing but after you read it, you will want to put it down and think about it. I would recomend it to anybody who can read! This is truly a classic.

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Summary: A masterpiece! It's "Pleasantville meets "The Truman Show."
Review: I just graduated from college with a degree in Elementary Education. I read this book to see what type of literature upper level readers would read. I did not know that I was going to read such a wonderful piece of work. This book is so touching. When the reader finds out the secrets of such things as the releasing and who The Giver's daughter is, one will be surprised. There are twists an amazing surprises on each page. Lowry has got a brilliant mind! I would also recommend "Number the Stars."