A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: The Giver
Review: When I read the book The Giver at first I thought NOT EXCITING WHAT'S SO EVER. After we kept on reading it wasn't all that bad.The story of The Giver is set in a utopia. There is a 12 year old boy named Jonas who lives in a community where there is no fear, pain, sadness, no colour, no feeling. The children are born into a family with only 2 children. Each person in the community receives the responsibility of a job that they must complete. Overall I would recommend this book to People between the ages of 14 and up. Only if they are into this kind of book.

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Summary: Awesome, simply awesome
Review: I picked this up in the library of the middle school I was teaching at to read while my kids were at an assembly. It was spellbounding. I was suspended in time while I read this. I read the entire book in a setting but it deeply affected me. Sometimes even now, I will recall something from the book and it stops me in mid-sentence. It is thought-provoking and intelligent.

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Summary: I hated this book
Review: I do believe that this was the worst book I have ever read in all my life. Normally, I love Lois Lowry, but this book was not one of her best. I had to do a report on the setting of this book, and while the characters were developed enough to understand the book, the setting was bleak. Sameness... how can you develope 2 pages strictly on the settingof sameness. I would not recommend this book to anyone!

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Summary: Th Giver
Review: How can you live in a world with so many different rules?. I thought that the novel was a very interesting story. I enjoyed reading "the giver" I couldn't really picture what would happen next, it would always surprise me in some way.I liked this novel because it was different from all of the the other novels that I had read. I really learned alot from this novel,I learned that we are very fortunate to live a life so free.I also learned that we are very luckey to be able to see colour and feel pain and love.I really enjoyed this novel and I think that you would too!.

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Summary: Steve Hi!
Review: I thought "The Giver" was a good and interesting novel. Its setting was interesting because it took place in a perfect world called the Utopia, where everything was the same. It was a good fiction novel because the setting is different from our world. I like how the author keeps you thinking after each chapter, and makes you want to keep reading. I also like all the suspenful events that take place throughout the novel. Most of all, I like the message the author gives being "Does a perfect world exist".

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a very interesting and inspiring book. It's about a boy named Jonas living in a community that is perfect. This community has no feelings, nor colours. Jonas has been chosen to be the Receiver of Memory on his 12th birthday and discovers the real world of pain, the feelings and learns all the colours. Lois Lowry's creative mind touched me, with her amazing story. This book leaves you with a surprising ending. I strongly recommend this to all the readers out there who love to read and children from ages 10 and up.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: Reading The GIver makes me feel like I am living in a utopia world. While I was reading this book, I put myself into this pretenting that I am Jonas. I think everybody should read this book.

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Summary: Perfect for the teen-ager
Review: Teens may enjoy the adventure into a perfect world where he/she finds life may not be quite so afterall.
A snowflake will seem extraordinary after reading The Giver.

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Summary: A excellent book
Review: The giver is a very good book I liked it very much and I think that you should read it too(only if you like science fiction). It has a interesting plot and a thinkable ending.
The giver is about a boy named Jonas he lives in a different comunity in a place where there is no pain,stress or bad history each family is alowed to have only two children each of different gender.Jonas gets to be picked as the next Reciever of memory, he learns and he discivers the horible secrets of his comunity and decides to do something about it. And that is about all Im going to tell you. I gave this book five out of five stars because I think that this book is excelently done...

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Summary: Two thumbs up
Review: Ok if people say it is innappropriate for children, they are overprotective mothers with no life. People don't understand it, your stupid. Or I'm just smart. This book isn't about killing or suicide, that just comes along with ignorance. Every single person in Jonas' community is completely ignorant and has no Idea that they are a subject of being controlled. They don't understand death, so they kill when the time is needed. This book makes you feel good that you live in a better world, people read this book and hate what they do or what the book says, the book sends a message and it is about that message not suicide.