A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: Good book, weird ending
Review: My name is Freddie and i am an eighth grader. I just finished reading this book. In the beginning the book was great, and towards the middle I couldn't put it down. But the last three chapters were boring and the ending could have been better.

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Summary: This book has mind-tickling different new creative thoughts!
Review: I read this book in 6th grade and I'm still thinking about it in ninth grade! I absolutely loved the new ideas Lois brought to light. I must read this book again! I'd reccomend this book to anyone. You're in for the book rollercoaster ride of your life. Happy reading!

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Summary: Great Book For Teenagers
Review: I had recently read this book at school in my reading class. I am in eighth grade. I couldn't put the book down. It tells the story of Jonas, a boy who grows up in a world different then ours. He doesn't like it and wants to experience the outside world. He encounters a challenge,which is being picked as the new Reciever of Memory. This is a great book.

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Summary: An eye-opener, with a pleasant outline
Review: I'm a 12 y/o from San Diego and i read The Giver last year. I understood most of it but the beginning was a little shaky as i was only 11. But still, toward the middle of this fascinating book, I started to understand the beginning and how it connected the end to itself. Then it all unraveled and started to make perfect sense. It looked like Lois Lowry was smoking something in the beginning but the end added a cherry to top this masterpiece.

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Summary: A Great book for ages 9 and up!!!
Review: I read this book when I was in 4th grade and then I let both my parents read it. They loved it and I loved it. A great read for a person who wants to read.

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Summary: The giver was a well written book.
Review: The Giver was very good book. At the begining it was very boring. As the book went on, it got much better, they should have a sequeal to the book.

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Summary: To the people that complained about its ending...
Review: write your own, then! I did. THE GIVER is an amazing book. It starts off pretty slow, but it picks up fast. The community's style of happiness was like Camazotz in A WRINKLE IN TIME (nice looking, but fake.) I mean, they kill criminals, old people and slow-learning babies. Who in their right mind could do that? And no color. That is bad. Jonas's memories are shockingly well-written. They remind me of Jessie's views of the 20th century in RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Three words: Read this book. If you don't, you might as well be living in that community.

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Summary: Cool Book
Review: I loved The Giver! I recommended it to all my friends! If you like to read, try this book.

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Summary: This is the best book ever written!!!
Review: If you like to read about Science Fiction then this is the book for you. In the great world where Jonas lives everytime you have a birthday you get a different opportunity, but on your 12th birthday you get a job and you start to train. Jonas is 12 and can't wait to get his job, but before this happens he starts to see things that other people can't see. When it is his turn to get his career he is given the job of the giver, or holder of memories. What happens next? That's where your job to find out!!!

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Summary: This book was a very unfair life to live.
Review: I thought that this book was really good thats why I rated it an eight but I didn't really like how it started off because the reader didn't really get you into the book and the end they just left you hanging and it would have made the book so much better if they put a better ending. But out of the whole book I could say it was one of the best books that I have ever read.