A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: Amazingly Deep
Review: This book is a real heart graber. It makes you think in ways that you never have before. After reading The Giver, you will never think the same again!!

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Summary: This is a great book for young adults
Review: This is a book which I use in my high school and middle school reading classes. It is easy to read and it deals with the leaders of a futuristic society that try to make a better society for their people through the loss of freedoms and increased controls. Jonas finds that this order of control does not work for him and he tries to leave.

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Summary: I loved this book from cover to cover!
Review: I think this book must be read by all! Louis Lowry has become one of my best writers. This science-fiction story has meaning, unlike most books today. I first read this as a class book and couldn't put it down. One night I even sneaked out of my bedroom to read the book! I do like thinking about what I've read, but the ending isn't self-explanatory.

Ronal Abraham, Muscat, Oman

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Summary: If you haven't read it you are a lost soul.
Review: This is unquestionably one of the best books that I have ever read. I read it as a seventh grader and I am now in tenth. Every year the book gains new meaning for me. The Giver was very contraversial when we read it but that is the whole point of this book. It causes us to ask some very tough questions that may take a long time to answer.

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Summary: It was a "NICE" book.....but..
Review: The Giver was a "NICE" book, but there were TOO many questions that left you hanging. I think that I would have liked it a little bit more if there was an ending to the story. I can understand why the author, Lois Lowry, didn't though. I think that the reason this book was written was to let us know that we don't appreciate love and warmth that we have every day seriously enough. Jonas didn't know any of this until he was given the memory of this. I think that we all take seeing color, hearing music and birds sing, the animals, the mountains, the oceans, and love that we have in our families for granted.

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Summary: EXCELENT!
Review: The Giver is 1984 for young readers.
Lois Lowery gives a comprehensive description of the life that Jonas leads. It allows young adults to question our society's strengths and weaknesses! EXCELENT!!!

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Summary: Lowry's The Giver is a book everyone should read!--Jocelyn
Review: Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver, plants readers inside a utopian (or dystopian?) society that is difficult to comprehend. Jonas's job as Receiver of Memories shows the young man everything his community has given up in order to be free from pain and differences. Realizing that so much joy was sacrificed along with the pain, Jonas and the Giver of Memories collaborate to bring real emotions back to the community. This book really made me grateful that I have agency and can make my own decisions, and it also made me thankful for real feelings of happiness -- things we really take for granted.

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Summary: Confused about the category? Me, too!
Review: I read the book and enjoyed it. . .hesitantly. I have thoroughly enjoyed much of what was in the book--I enjoy thinking, and this book certainly made me do that. I picked up the book when I saw the author (one of my favorites!) and the Newbery--an award I respect in the children's genre. However, this was not a children's book. I teach school and will leave this in my classroom but not recommend it--I feel that this book was written for adults starring children. Thinking is good, the ambiguous ending actually adds to the book in my opinion, but deals with issues that are better dealt with from an adult perspective

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Summary: This is a great book
Review: This a great book full of feeling and emotian. The charectors are well described and the plot is really good. The only part that's differant is its bizzare ending. This is a well written book and it's a great book for young adults

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Summary: A enjoyable, hard to put down book.
Review: I think I enjoyed this book, because I could relate to the main charactor. His want for understanding the giver, and what really happened around him. At first, he was scared and didn't think he had the 'magic' within him. I highy recommend this book for it's wonderful discribtion, understanding of the world, and interesting happenings. You never really know what's going to happen next. Therefore it is sooo hard to put down. Even as the novel ends, you'd wander what happened to him. I love a good book that 'changes' your theory of the world and it's people.