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... I'm now reading that to the class - just as popular. In the past, other books that I've had success with have included The Giver, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Silver Sword, Rules and There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. Have you read Gone by Michael Grant or The Maze Ru ...

It doesn't sound like The Giver -- the emphasis there by no means was on government oversight. Searching around, I see a few YA dystopias with "Winter" -- doesn't sound like any of them are quite right, but maybe they will ring a bell: * Winter's End by Jean-Claude Mourlevat -- this ...

Second The Invention of Hugo Cabret!! And Percy Jackson!! And The Giver. What about Bone Vol. 1? (The graphic novel) My coworker has read all of them, then passed them on to another coworker's daughter. Also enjoyed Jordan Sonnenblick. And what about The Outsiders?

I'm going out on a limb here and suggest The giver by Lois Lowry.

Anastasia, Ask your Analyst by Lois Lowery

OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.

Now reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

... finished reading The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. It's technically young adult, but it's young adult in the same way The Giver or To Kill a Mockingbird is. Honestly, made me cry. 1st book to do that in a long time. The copy I have has the book club questions and an interview with the ...

... Dennis Danvers Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Giver by Lois Lowry Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer

51. The Giver by Lois Lowry: 27/05/09 I feel as if I've come late to the party on this one, a thought-provoking ‘dystopia’ novel that starts off by showing what seems like an idyllic society, and gradually reveals its dark undertones ... Jonah lives in a tightly regulated community that ...

... Bridesmaid by Salamon 154. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie 155. Veil of Roses by Fitzgerald 156. The Giver by Lowry 157. Random Acts of Heroic Love by Scheinmann 158. Just Jane by Lavender 159. The Girl She Left Behind by Brichoux 160. Saint of Lost Things ...

... books I don't really care for. I agree with the people who recommend Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan series and The Giver by Lois Lowry. There is also the Safehold series by David Weber. First book is Off Armageddon Reef Main character is supposed to be a robotic type body ...

... by Robert Holdstock Muddle Earth by Paul Stewart The Little Country by Charles de Lint Inkheart by Cornelia Funk The Giver by Lois Lowry Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Un Lun Dun by China Mieville The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker A Man Betrayed by J. V. Jones ...

... a book you have read this year, but should not repeat books if possible. * Describe yourself: The Dream Merchant, the Giver, although I like the sound of: the Mystic Rose How do you feel: Magyk Describe where you currently live: Magic Street Black Swan Green If you ...

... World by Gaarder Jostein The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley The Giver by Lois Lowry The Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk Empress Orchid by Anchee Min

40 - Lois Lowry - Le passeur Roman de jeunesse, catégorie "science fiction", qui invente une société sans chômage ni guerre, sans faim ní crime. Bien sûr, cette apparente félicité ne s'acquiert pas gratuitement et le jeune protagoniste Jonas doit payer le prix fort. Lecture fort ...

... York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1903. Longknife, Ann, and K.D. Sullivan. The Art of Styling Sentences Lowry, Lois. The Giver. New York: Laurel-Leaf Library, 1993. MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1985. MacLachlan, Patricia. Baby. New York: Ban ...

... a good start. The latter may only be available as Young Miles. If you like dystopia's, perhaps try 1984 by Orwell or The Giver by Lowry. Another good, often overlooked book is Expendable by Gardner, but that may be hard to find.

... much for the recommendations. I'm definitely going to try some more of Lowry. >123 - Bonnie - I do think that I'll read The Giver again. You are right that the suspense won't be the same, but I think I'll enjoy it again. >124 - Diana - I can't believe it!! That incident struck me as very ...

I second Stasia's recommendation of Number the Stars. It's very good, but a lot more simple (being juvenile) than The Giver. And for something totally lighter, I absolutely adored her Anastasia Krupnik books when I was a kid!

... ard: Books I have read and well never read again or make my kiddles read include: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Hatchet, The Giver and anything by John Steinbeck. The first three I had to read in 3rd grade and I swear to all that is holy, they single handily caused my first depression ...

I so agree about The Giver. It's that rare YA book that's equally compelling to adults. You wouldn't think that it would be as good the second time around, considering what you learn, but it was!

... whole heartedly recommend is Number the Stars, although it is classified as juvenile, not young adult like my library has The Giver. The Giver is the first book in a trilogy, but the other two books, Gathering Blue and Messenger are nowhere near it IMHO.

Linda, Marcia, Stasia, and Cait - I'm so glad to find more lovers of The Giver. I think it's going to be one of those books that sticks with me. I want to read more of Lowry's books now!

Count me in as one of the lovers of The Giver. I read it twice last year as a matter of fact.

I love The Giver! It's one of my favorite novels of all time. I need to either dig out my copy or buy a new one!

Amy I hope the new semester finds you well! Thanks for such an excellent review of The Giver. I read this a long time ago, but your comments prompt me to want to read it anew.

Book #78 - The Giver - Lois Lowry - Finished September 3, 2009 I've seen this book on several of your threads, and when I saw it on CD at my library, I picked it up. This book was amazing! It worked well on audio (well, except for the annoying music periodically), but I think that I want ...

... fit both criteria (yes, some are just honors): A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle Holes, by Louis Sachar The Giver, by Lois Lowry Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweile ...

Wait there is more! 29. The Very Virile Viking 08-17-2009 - funny! 30. The Giver - 08-25-2009 - one of my favs as a kid... we read it in class, but I did not pay much attention to it... I thought that it was a wonderful story and like most books I know that I appreciated it so much more now ...

I loved The Giver.

The premise of Genesis also sounds a bit like The Giver by Lois Lowry.

... addition to possessing an awesome title, is a rather nice zombie/post-apoc/dystopia type YA novel that reminds me a bit of The Giver in terms of feel. Fun stuff, for those who like such thing.

... on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (mystery) **** 14. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (fiction) **** 15. The Giver by Lois Lowry (YA sci fi) ***** 16. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (YA sci fi) **** 17. The Golden Ass by Apuleius (fiction) **1/2 18. The Girl With the ...

... Bible's never-endingness everyone in my English AP class was rather ecstatic about A Doll's House. I thought The Giver was a more elementary/middle school book, at least I recall it being assigned in 6th grade or so (worst school book ever was the 7th grade Where the Red Fern Grows ...

I wasn't particularly enthralled with Gathering Blue either, but The Giver is one of my favorite YA novels. You're right - it really is a shame.

I agree about Messenger, Luxx. After such a fine beginning to the trilogy with The Giver, neither of the following books lived up to it, which is a shame.

10. Children / YA 1. The Giver by Lois Lowry 2. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett 3. A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett 4. Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett 5. Spellbinder by Helen Stringer

... Tales of the Supernatural Honor -1993 Walter Dean Myers Somewhere in the Darkness Honor 1994 Lois Lowry The Giver Winner -1994 Jane Leslie Conly Crazy Lady Honor -1994 Laurence Yep Dragon's Gate Honor -1994 Russell Freedman Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery ...

... relationships. Candor is a great book to introduce teens to after they’ve grown out of Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver. In an exploding dystopian lit genre, this one will stand out because of its creativity and the power that it will wield over readers. 125. As You Wish ...

... including the book thief, A Great and Terrible Beauty, books 3-7 of the Edge Chronicles series, 2 copies each of The Giver and Gathering Blue, Flora's Dare, Wildwood Dancing, Kidnapped, Where the Red Fern Grows, Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, Flush, No Limits by ...

16. Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry YA fiction, companion to The Giver, sort of a dystopian fantasy maybe - up to interpretation, 240 pgs The Giver's been one of my favorite books since I first read it six years ago, so it's strange I hadn't read this sooner. Maybe I already knew I ...

>107 - I own The Giver but maybe I'll see if my library has Gathering Blue and The Messenger. Thanks Stasia :)

... politics of the era as much as for the thriller aspect. Disturbing, but I found myself immersed in it. Dystopia The Giver by Lois Lowry A very interesting premise about a supposedly utopian society. It is a young adult book, but it still managed to be absolutely chilling, in ...

#106: I have read all 3 books of the trilogy, but IMHO, the other 2 books do not hold a candle to The Giver and yes, they are a trilogy, not really a series. Thanks for the info on the Blossom series. I will have to see if my local library has them.

I highly recommend The Giver to anyone who hasn't read it yet. Has anyone read Gathering Blue or The Messenger? They recently packaged the 3 together as a boxed set but they aren't necessarily a series - correct? Peck has written 4 books with Blossom. The first has her friend Alexander ...

... Eleanor Estes book thus far. Usually I love her books. Over the weekend I started Gathering Blue, a companion to The Giver. I'm seeing a lot of similarities between the two and, at less than halfway through, I think I've already figured out the whole book. It's probably time for ...

... Leavitt The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle The Giver by Lois Lowry Lacemakers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman Piano ...

Jonas from The Giver?

#101: The Giver is an absolute treasure of a book. Glad to see you liked it, too. I have already pre-ordered Catching Fire - I did immediately after finishing The Hunger Games I liked that book so much. What are the other books in the Blossom series? I have read a couple of Peck's ...

... the blog links for a few of these reviews... #61 The Giver by Lois Lowry Really really liked this one! I was wondering how I missed this one in school but I think I'm just a little too old - never made it onto those ...

... Blue - Pauline Fisk (Smarties Award) vi. Skellig - David Almond (Carnegie Medal, Whitbread award + others) vii. The Giver - Lois Lowry (Newbery Award) viii. The Dark is Rising (Newbery Award) *re-read ix. The Grey King (Newbery Award) *re-read Category Complete I ...

#138 The Giver Lois Lowry I enjoyed this book very much and finished it quickly. It is a tale that will set you thinking, and it is just a good story. However I must admit to some disappointment. My expectations were very high for this work. It is Newbery medal winner, a book that we know from ...

... Potter suggestions: Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick The Giver by Lois Lowry It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini Coraline by Neil Gaiman Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones American Born Chinese by Gene ...

#146: There are 2 follow up books to The Giver if you are interested, although IMHO, they are not nearly as well-written. The books are Gathering Blue and Messenger.

Book 58: Lowry, Lois: The Giver 999 Newbery category (6/23/2009) Borrowed 179 pages I needed a break from the book I’m reading and this YA novel that one of my students lent me because she wanted to read it and it just filled the bill. It was an easy afternoon read but with an ...

Book 58: Lowry, Lois: The Giver 999 Newbery category (6/23/2009) Borrowed 179 pages I needed a break from the book I’m reading and this YA novel that one of my students lent me because she wanted to read it and it just filled the bill. It was an easy afternoon read but with an ...

277 The Giver (Lois Lowry): I can see why this book is a favorite for literature teachers. The tale is well crafted, engaging, and thought provoking. There are so many hot topics: education, euthanasia, surrogate pregnancy, designer babies, adoption, arranged marriage, and governmental ...

66. The Giver by Lois Lowry A young adult/children's book but on the theme of dystopia. I really enjoyed this. Because it was aimed at a young audience, it was an easy read, but still had some interesting ideas and was still powerful. My only criticism is that it seemed rather rushed towards ...

Just read my first The Road...a great book...kinda like a grown-up version of The Giver

Two come to mind. The Giver and A Wrinkle In Time. I think sometimes we're just not old enough or can't relate to the topic of the book when we're that young when all that matters is finishing the stupid essay you have to do on the stupid book. I read Catcher In the Rye in the summer ...

... After all, if everyone's tastes were the same, it would be a rather boring place, wouldn't it? #109: I am glad you liked The Giver. I thought it was terrific, although the other 2 books in the trilogy were disappointing in comparison.

The college near my house is doing a play of The Giver. It's not a book that I enjoyed, but I wonder what the play would be like. I finished Worst Hard Time and started The God of Small Things. I was glad to finish up the Egan book, as it was pretty grim reading sometimes, but I'm not ...

35. The Giver, Lois Lowry This was recommended by someone who read my "15 sticky books in 15 minutes or less" this week on my blog (it's Thursday's post - didn't link directly so you don't see the list behind the cut if you want to participate ...

Laia, I read The Giver last year or so for the first time. I loved it!

Picked up The Giver on a recommendation of DevourerofBooks and am hooked; also checked out Dealing with Dragons after reading a comment foggi left on my blog, Anastasia's Chosen Career (was already in Lowry; it's an old favorite!), and The Hitchhiker's Guideto the Galaxy, which I've not read.

The Giver by Lois Lowry, unless someone else has been stealing Lowry's plots!

... Gaiman Bunnicula by Deborah Howe The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau The Giver by Lois Lowry Harry Potter by JK Rowling Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman The Last Unicorn by Peter ...

#220: Number the Stars is very good, but if you can only read one of Lowry's books, I would recommend The Giver. It is excellent.

... I've just popped into Dymocks today to pick up a few Young Adult titles I've heard good things about on Library Thing (The Giver, The Hunger Games and Exodus). And my appetite to read The Slap, How the Dead Live and Handling the Undead has also been very much whetted after ...

More than one vote: 7 – Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) 5 - Jumper (Steven C. Gould) 5 - The Giver (Lois Lowry) 4 - Have Spacesuit Will Travel (Robert Heinlein) 4 - The White Mountains series (John Christopher) 4 - A Wrinkle in Time ( Madeline L’Engle) 3 - Childhood’ ...

The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg The Giver by Lois Lowry

More than one vote: 7 – Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) 5 - Jumper (Steven C. Gould) 5 - The Giver (Lois Lowry) 3 - Childhood’s End (Arthur C. Clarke) 3 - A Wrinkle in Time ( Madeline L’Engle) 2 - The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Mary E. Pearson) 2 - The Bar Code Tattoo ...

... Jones is brilliant. The Thief, Queen of Attolia, and King of Attolia are all excellent. The Hunger Games and The Giver are great YA dystopic fiction books. Wee Free Men, Hat Full of Sky, and Wintersmith are very good YA fantasies. A Wrinkle in Time is a great YA classic. H ...

i don;t knw wether this is still taking suggestions but i would say The Giver by Louis Lowry as that is the first Sc-Fi I ever read and The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester.

... She said it was weird but that she was enjoying it. Haha, that's too funny! How funny that three of us have read The Giver this month! I always think it's interesting that there are so many books out there, yet we always manage to have repeats. :) Happy reading all!

How funny that so many of us read The Giver! Hollister - I have enjoyed the Jane Austen mysteries. I wouldn't say they are necessarily quick reads like some mysteries are - there's a definite Austen flavor to the writing - but I enjoyed them. After reading all your lists I've added to my TBR ...

... Ayn Rand (not that we understood it) in high school! Some personal favorites I can remember are A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, Bradbury and Heinlein.

We read The Giver several years ago in Bookclub. I remember that the ending could be interpreted more than one way..... and that I liked it a lot. I am absolutely exhausted. We hosted my father-in-law’s 80th birthday party at our house on Saturday the 2nd of May. We had about 80 people. ...

... the backdrop of the unforgiving religious community she cannot escape. The narrative reads like Nomi's diary. 4 stars The Giver by Lois Lowry - 3 1/2 stars At risk by Alice Hoffman - Polly and Ivan Farrell are a nice, small-town Massachusetts family, with two kids, Amanda, eleven, an ...

... let me know! More than one vote - 7 – Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) 5 - Jumper (Steven C. Gould) 4 - The Giver (Lois Lowry) 3 - Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke) 2 - City of Ember (Jeanne DuPrau) 2 - The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Nancy Farmer) 2 - The Delikon ...

... Rowling - Refer to above! 4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling - Refer to above! 5. The Giver, by Lois Lowry - This is a classic that I feel like every adolescent read in grade school or middle school. But for some reason, I never had. I really enjoyed ...

Science Fair Ender's Game The True Meaning of Smekday The Giver the rest in the trilogy don't really count as si-fi Dragon and Thief and the rest of the series

... the last two books because I just don't want this series to end. I guess I'll finish it up in May Giver Trilogy The Giver Gathering Blue Messenger It was an interesting speculation into what the world might end up like post-apocalyptic occurrence - but somehow it didn't fully ...

jumper by steven gould z for zachariah by robert c o'brien the giver by lois lowry psion by joan d vinge

I second or third The Hunger Games, The Giver, Childhood's End, City of Ember and also recommend: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'engle Jumper by Steven Gould Wind Singer by William Nicholson

... listing them again helps sort out what are commonly held to be such and what's not. Anyway! I'd list the following: The Giver - Lois Lowry Fade - Lisa McMann Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau Uglies - Scott Westerfield The Hunger Games - Suzanne ...

... Vonnegut Maybe there should be a separate YA list? I agree with the comments about books like The Hunger Games and The Giver. Adults read and enjoy them, too, and they would appeal to a lot of new readers.

... -- so far, I've read: The Other Side of the Island -- really enjoyed this, would recommend it to fans of Lois Lowry's The Giver Geek Magnet -- a nice light read Sucks to be Me -- good but not great Kin: The Good Neighbors -- I wasn't impressed; not much originality in the plot, I ...

... is on my tbr pile, my sons have enjoyed them. Dune series by Frank Herbert, 1984, by Orwell. No one has mentioned The Giver by Lois Lowry, maybe it is supposed to be targeted to a YA audience, but that book still haunts me today. Le Guin EarthSea series might qualify as fantasy ...

... classics, like Sense and Sensibility. 9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? The Giver by Lois Lowry. 10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? Oh, I have no idea. 11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? ...

... works" so far, I see some that I really like but that I would consider more J FIC than YA FIC (for example, I really love: The Giver and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler). These are both books from my youth that had a profound impact on me. The Giver changed my ...

... in a deep and spiritual way! By the way, did you see your "hot" review status on today's homepage. Your comments re. The Giver were wonderfully written.

9. The Giver, Lois Lowry

... and The Hunger Games, both of which I think are pretty hot with the Y/A crowd right now. There are also things like The Giver. ETA: I agree that Pern is sci fi that looks and feels like fantasy - the origins are clearly sci fi (space ships, genetic engineering, colonization, and all!) ...

I agree The Giver is quite good, but personally my favorite in the trilogy is the second book, Gathering Blue, for the character of Kira. The third volume, Messenger, is quite good too, but I found the ending a little too much, well, "New Age-y" for my taste.

Yes, that is definitely The Giver.

Book No. 69 The Giver by Lois Lowry 3 1/2 stars In the ideal world where Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy and one girl. These children's adolescent sexual impulses will be stifled with specially ...

Definitely The Giver.

Pretty sure that would be The Giver by Lois Lowry. (Love it!)

... vsky The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Giver - Lois Lowry

... in my future, and I still look forward to it, whatever my misgivings about this collection. I picked up Lois Lowry's The Giver on a whim at Strand a few weeks back and read it in my spare hours that evening. I actually enjoyed it--I'm not usually a YA fan, so I'm always surprised when I ...

... I changed some of my individual series books into series, but there are two where I just don't think the series is as good: The Giver and Many Waters. I think most people would also list The Giver on its own if they were inclined to list it at all, but Many Waters is a completely different ...

I think you are right, TadAD - Charlotte's Web does have to be read as a kid. Some children's books don't; I found The Giver to be wonderful when I read it yesterday. When I reread A Little Princess it was a huge letdown, and I remember loving it when I was little. I have a stack of ...

... idea! Here are my 10 favourites: 1. The Song of the Lioness Quartet 2. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci 3. The Giver 5. Charlotte Sometimes 6. Many Waters 7. Tuck Everlasting 8. Flowers for Algernon 9. Flatland 10. Playing Beatie Bow They're mostly ...

#223: Well, after putting my foot in my mouth earlier (a not uncommon experience), I am very glad that you liked The Giver!

I went into the review section of this listing and gave you a thumbs up. I see that someone else did so as well. I read The Giver a long time ago. Your review prompts me to re-read it.

Wonderful review of The Giver!

... because I think I missed out on a lot - but now I just get to read them as an adult! And, you were right about The Giver - it was a much better book! Book #39: The Giver by Lois Lowry I am glad that I read Lowry's Number the Stars first, because I was very impressed with ...

#220 - I am going to start The Giver tomorrow, Stasia - I will let you know which I like better.

#216: I liked Number the Stars when I read it recently, too, but not as much as you did. I still think The Giver is the better book of hers. Oh, well, tastes differ and Number is still a very good book.

The Giver; recently The Underneath. Both kids books, both read when I was an adult. Makes me wonder what kids make of them...

... Franklin, Ariana: Mistress of the Art of Death 57. McPherson, James: The Battle Cry of Freedom 58. Lowry, Lois: The Giver 59. Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness 60. McCrumb, Sharon: Zombies of the Gene Pool 61. Bly, Robert: Morning Poems Books Read PL: 4 (Pages ...

... fun for me to come back and see everyone's comments, too, so I probably enjoy it as much as everyone else. #293: Cait, The Giver is probably the best book of Lowry's I have read. Number the Stars won the Newbery, but I really think The Giver is a better book. It is the first book of a ...

I'm glad you enjoyed Hana's Suitcase! I have both Number the Stars and The Giver home from the library this week - I hope I enjoy them as much as you did!

... recommended 134a. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - juvenile; I did not find this book to be as well written as The Giver, but I still thought this Newbery winner was a good read; recommended 134b. Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine - juvenile nonfiction; I read this in ...

... people together and expect them to agree. It's antithetical to liberty and autonomy. Those who want to teach and study The Giver should be able to so, and those who don't shouldn't have to.

... it was the first book where I met the author. I just recently found a copy of my favorite book since I was a child, The Giver so I'm going to have top throw that in here as well.

#11: I certainly understand not wanting to mess with the 'vision' that you have of the ending of The Giver. I have not read any of Lowry's biographical information, but you have intrigued me enough to make me go looking . . .

alcottacre, I have read many feel that neither Gathering Blue nor Messenger lives up to the writing level of The Giver. I think I am not going to read Gathering Blue or Messenger any time soon; imagining what could happen next seems more fun right now then finding out what ...

... the library and I don't have a particular order, rhyme or reason. Before my Newbery journey, I read A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, and last year I believe Anita recommended Walk Two Moons. I liked that one so much I recommended it to my book club members as one of our reads. Stasia, I ...

... eh? I don't know if I've done this before for you, but some of my favorite Newbery winners are A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, Walk Two Moons, Sarah, Plain, and Tall, The Hero and the Crown, Jacob Have I Loved, The Bridge to Terabithia, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Don't ...

In addition to The Giver (my post 42), I discovered another really distrubing story in Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite. I'm afraid to read anything else by her. Sometimes I'll just be sitting and zoneing and a scene from the book will pop in my head and make me feel a little ill. I didn't ...

... Louis Stevenson Charlie and the chocolate factory and anything else by Roald Dahl - still so enjoyable as an adult! The giver by Lois Lowry Bone series by Jeff Smith The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling I have to enthusiastically second The invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selzn ...

I liked Number the Stars as a kid, but it was never my favorite, because it does seem to lack depth. Lowry's The Giver is one of my favorite books of all time, however.

... Uglies series (Pretties, Specials and Extras) or The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer or the other titles in The Giver series Gathering Blue, Gossamer and Messenger. Those books should be mentioned for those readers who aren't aware of them. Does Holocaust literature ...

The Giver by Lois Lowry One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony City of Glass by Paul Auster V for Vendetta by Alan Moore Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton Something Wic ...

#9: Sharon, I do not know if you realize it or not, but The Giver was the first book in a trilogy. The other two books, Gathering Blue and Messenger complete the trilogy. IMHO, they are not anywhere close to the writing level of The Giver, but they do let you know what happens.

alcottacre, Thanks for the kind welcome! I love The Giver! How did you feel about the ending of The Giver? The ending seems to have sparked some real controversy. I just assumed that they made their escape and lived happily ever after...but then I'm a hopeless romantic.

Welcome to the group! I see you have The Giver on your list. I loved that book when I read it (twice) last year.

... Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman The Giver by Lois Lowry From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary The Art of Styling Se ...

... about that), and The Handmaid's Tale was good, especially if you like dystopian novels (like 1984, Brave New World, The Giver, etc - basically a book about an alternate society that is miserable to live in). Maybe someone else, who is better versed in Atwood, has some input?

... Zoe's statements: Gathering Blue can be read as a stand-alone because you really do not see the connection between it and The Giver. Messenger wraps them together. IMO, neither of the sequels is up to the standard of The Giver, though. #43: I will have to look for that one. Thanks ...

Exactly, Zoe! You phrased it a lot better than I could have. The Giver just sparked a lot of discussion and thought about whether the decisions their elders made was the right ones, whether our society could possibly get to the same point of peace and order that Jonas' did without the ...

... at the time one of the reasons I liked it less was because it didn't raise the same interesting dystopia questions that The Giver did. Kira's world just seemed brutal and bad, whereas Jonas' world had paid a high price for certain gains. Regression to me just isn't particularly interesting, ...

... to certain death, but she soon realizes that the Guardians have plans of their own. This was listed as a sequel to The Giver, which I loved, so I was surprised to find that this could really have been a standalone book. Kira's story has nothing to do with Jonas' story, except for the ...

***Spoilers*** for The Giver If you want more from the ending, you could consider whether he actually died on the way and the too-perfect ending was just a delusion. It's not what the author intended, but once someone suggested it to me I could see how it was plausible. I found Gathering Bl ...

#38: Picolina, The Giver is actually the first book in a trilogy. You might want to check out the other 2 books as well: Gathering Blue and Messenger.

38> There are people who think The Giver is a bad book? Maybe I live in a bubble... I love it! I think it was maybe the first book that really challenged my view of the world, which is part of the reason. There are not many YA books that skewed my whole world view more than that one!

12) The Giver by Lois Lowry- I don't know why my friends were saying this was a bad book. It was great!!! Jonas' world is completely like a parallel universe to ours, and the fact that The Giver is always the one with the memories signifies that everything is always in its place. I was really ...

Sounds kind of like Running out of Time and a little like The Giver too. Similar themes.....might have to give that a read sometime!

... of the Flies (scary book), and Light in the Forest could all be on the list. A good new book for the list would be The Giver. Can you give me some suggestions on more of the newer books? Thanks.

... Verne and H. G. Wells have good short sci-fi stories Lynne Reid Banks fantasy books - these might be a bit too young The Giver by Lois Lowry

... immediately/i'm looking for a cynical girl" Marshall Crenshaw. ** far better than the ever recommended Lowry book the giver - really one of her weaker books. sigh - the html switch to turn OFF italics isn't being saved at the moment.

15. The Giver, by Lois Lowry I first read this when I was in primary school, and while I loved it, I missed a lot of what went on because of my age. Having just read it again, ...

... hear its supposed to be pretty good. I have read The People of Sparks but it has been awhile. My mom suggested I read The Giver since I had read Gathering Blue and I didn't even know it was part of a trilogy. Graceling, I *borrowed* from my mom and have yet to have read it. I really ...

>21: Don't feel bad about that! I've never read The Giver either...!

cmt, I would be interested to see what you think of Five Quarters of an Orange. It sounds interesting! As for disturbing books, I agree. Perfume fits the bill. The writing was gorgeous... in a creepy, unsettling way. Interestingly two of the books that I've already read this year (Blindness ...

... pick up the next few books in the series. Have you read People of Sparks? Catey, I am jealous that you haven't yet read The Giver. I read it in primary school and it's still one of my favorie books. It's so evocative, so meaningful. Graceling was a page-turner. I finished it in one sitting! ...

... read neither of these, although I have an earlier book by each author in the TBR pile. I have read City of Ember, The Giver, and Magyk, and much preferred the latter. I've liked that whole series. What did you think?

Welcome She Who Wears Red, I loved City of Ember, how did you like it? I also plan on read Graceling and The Giver this year. I've heard good things about them. Catey

Hi all, I'm new to the group and quietly adding my own little list to the bunch. I have never successfully kept track of how many books I've read throughout the year, so I don't really know how many to shoot for. But 75 seems as good a starting point as any! Here are the books I've read so far. I ...

#21: The Messenger does wrap up the trilogy, so you will see how The Giver and Gathering Blue are tied together. Although the second and third books are good, IMO, they do not hold a candle to The Giver. I have Hunger Games home from the library now and will get to it eventually. I ...

... building but in my opinion, it ended too abruptly with so many questions hanging. I felt the ending was rushed as well. The Giver by Lois Lowry Okay I'll admit it, I'm twenty *cough cough* something and I have never read The Giver. I don't know how I made it out of the middle school ...

... but in my opinion, it ended too abruptly with so many questions hanging. I felt the ending was rushed as well. 11. The Giver by Lois Lowry Okay I'll admit it, I'm twenty *cough cough* something and I have never read The Giver. I don't know how I made it out of the middle school ...

I think YAs have gotten better (The Giver, Holes), less preachy, more thoughtful and realistic. Maybe more parents are reading along with their kids. Fondest memories of my son's childhood was reading Harry Potter aloud until Book 6, when he refused to be read to, though we still talked ...

#77: I agree Megi that Messenger does not live up at all to The Giver, which is IMHO, an excellent book. I do not think Gathering Blue lived up to it, either, but I am still glad I read the entire trilogy. I guess whatever religious overtones you saw flew right over my head, lol.

... the ending. It had religious overtones that didn't fit in with the rest of the "trilogy". It was nice to see Jonas from The Giver again, even though he didn't have nearly the spark he had in the original.

... Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin The Giver by Lois Lowry My memorable reads of 2008 are posted in my first thread for this year (message 38), and my memorable reads thus far for 2009 are posted on ...

... (12 and 14) and they both loved it! So did I, really. I think you're in for a treat! I just finished re-reading The Giver last night. I first read it in primary school sometime, so I'd forgotten a lot of it. A decade and a half later, it still managed not to disappoint. Definitely a ...

In no particular order: Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K.Le Guin The Giver by Lois Lowry The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell House of Stairs by William Sleator

... Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Everworld by K. A. Applegate Love Letter by Cathleen Schine The Giver by Lois Lowry Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green Victoria and the Rogue by Meg Cabot Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi Caught in ...

... to be read in 2009. Thanks...I'll be sure to check with my daughter to see if she read the other two books that follow The Giver.

#38: IMHO, they are not as good as The Giver, but I think they are still worth the read.

#35: Since you enjoyed The Giver, you might give the other two books in the trilogy a try. Gathering Blue and Messenger complete the trilogy.

> 22 Agreed! I read all three recently, and The Giver was far and away the best. Selkie_girl, you might want to pick up The Messenger, too. They're connected, and I liked it better than Gathering Blue, personally.

6. The Giver by Lowis Lowry. Great read. Makes you think about all the choices we're able to make all the way down to loving someone.

Oh, you should definitely read The Giver! I think it's much, much better than Gathering Blue.

... Blue by Lois Lowry an interesting Dystopic Ya novel, but the ending left the reader wanting more. Might pick up The Giver next which I've never read. Still wondering how I made it out of grade school without reading it.

... Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is also fabulous. It is about teenage boys in gangs and all of the stuff they go through. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a great book about a futuristic society. I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle (former "Simpsons" writer) and King Dork by Frank Portman ...

... liking it a lot. The ones you might have heard of, Booksloth, are The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle, A Wrinkle in Time or The Giver. One that I love and did not realize was a Newbery book was Holes by Louis Sachar.

... Karen Cushman - The Midwife's Apprentice 1995 Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons 1994 Lois Lowry - The Giver 1993 Cynthia Rylant - Missing May 1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Shiloh 1991 Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee 1990 Lois ...

... Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (science fiction almost-but-not-quite-fantasy weird-and-wonderful goodness) 6. The Giver by Lois Lowry (it's YA, but it really sticks with you) 7. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (you have to be a certain breed of weird Disney-phi ...

... Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Best Historical: Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman Best Childrens: (tie) The Giver by Lois Lowry & The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Best Debut: Q & A (now published as Slumdog Millionaire) by Vikas Swarup Best Poetry: The Collected W ...

7) Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut by Jhonen Vasquez 8) The Giver by Loiw Lowry 9) Vampire Knight vol. 1 by Matsuri Hino

i think the best argument i can make for "contemperary popular fiction" being used in a high school class is the giver by lois lowry. i haven't met a single person who has read that book and not been extremely touched by it. talking about that book in a classroom setting, yes even with high ...

I have read The Giver, both in school and since and I enjoyed it a lot. I thought it had a nice plot and point to it, and it really makes a person think! I've hear of Brave New World, and it sounds really familiar (Though I'm not sure from where) but I've never read it. Is it really good? Sh ...

... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck The Giver Lois Lowry Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Siddhartha Hermann Hesse The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Gone ...

... The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry - not bad, but not all that wonderful either, especially considering how much I loved The Giver; one of the things that really irritated me, given that the book is for children is that fact that Lowry provides a further reading list and then promptly tells ...

... of the Travelling Pants, Born to Rock, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. I'm re-reading Judy Blume. I read The Giver over and over when I was 13. Since you like Meg Cabot, have you read her Heather Wells series? Or anything by Sophie Kinsella?

... middle school, not high school, but the two worst books I had to read for a class were: Where The Red Fern Grows and The Giver. I don't care about some boy and his hunting dog. And The Giver by Lois Lowry just didn't work for me. It had a good premise. I think the main ...

... ry 8. Sold by Patricia McCormick 9. A Curse Dark as gold by Elizabeth C Bunce 10Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry 11. The Giver by Lois Lowry 12. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 13. The Runaways Vol. 2 Teenage Wasteland by Brian K Vaughan 14. Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesne ...

YA: Lois Lowry's The Giver Adult: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

... ****** YOUNG ADULT The Golden Compassdone The Amber Spyglassdone The Subtle Knife Eragon Eldest Brisingr The Giver Gathering Blue Messenger ******************************* HEALTH/WELLNESS The 4 Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan done home health spa done the ...

... ran Newberry Winners I Haven't Read 1. "Number the Stars" - Lois Lowry (Jan.) 2. "The Giver" - Lois Lowry (May) 3. "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" - Elizabeth George Speare (Feb.) 4. "The Graveyard Book" - N ...

3. Books That I Should Have Already Read 1. The Giver by Lois Lowry 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

... through the books you read and don’t own has shown me Gathering Blue. My twenty-year old sister has been crazy about The Giver for the last ten years or so. She had six copies at one point and has always tried to get others to read it. (I read it six years ago.) Thanks for helping me ...

... Eagles My Name is Number Four The Robe of Skulls On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson The Giver *Winnie-the-Pooh Song of the Giraffe Early Bird Beauty by Robin McKinley Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley Black Wave Tell Me Where it Hurt ...

So far this month I've ripped through The Hunger Games, The Giver, and Thirteen Reasons Why. All excellent reads and very much recommended!

#95: The Giver is possibly in my top ten books of all time. It's really fabulous. As far as books I didn't like... I've read plenty of mediocre YA lit, but the only one I've completely hated in memory was Twilight. It is hands-down my least favorite book I've ever read -- I found Bella ...

... ) 4. Kadohata, Cynthia: Kira-Kira (3/31/09) 5. McKinley, Robin: The Hero and the Crown (4/08/09) 6. Lowry, Lois: The Giver (6/23/09) 7. 8. 9.

... would give them a try; I was pleasantly surprised, but I think in 2009 I will make a point of reading the real deal 469. The Giver by Lois Lowry - YA; this was a re-read for me since I read it earlier this year before I knew it was the first book in a trilogy; excellent, and one of my ...

... My Sister's Keeper The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Bridges of Madison County Run Me A River The Jungle Book The Giver Water for Elephants There's a hilarious picture of me opening this giant bag full of these things... all individually wrapped. I look like a little kid that ...

"How could anyone throw Lois Lowery in the trash?" I'm in complete agreement, The Giver and Number the Stars were two of my favorite books growing up, they're Y.A. classics in my opinion.

... of some of her books soon. I saw her give a talk a few years ago and she took the pictures of the people on the cover of The Giver and Number the Stars. The girl on the cover of Number the Stars is now married with 3 kids. And there was a better picture for the cover of The Giver but it ...

38. Drop City by T.C. Boyle 39. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 40. The Giver by Lois Lowry 41. The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq 42. Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

... and make it a point to read the book at least once a year. I will have to look for The Willoughbys. I have enjoyed The Giver by Lowry and hope this recommendation is just as good. I have The Graveyard Book home from the library now and will be getting to it soon (I hope!).

The Giver was read to me in fifth grade; there are some astonishingly adult themes in there, which is why it's so popular even still. There are questions raised about the role of the government, the price of individuality, and even some questions about euthanasia for the elderly.

... imagine. I've read a lot of Neal Shusterman and really like him. I like the books 1984, Hellbent, The Host, and The Giver. Things like that, or new ideas are awesome...

How about some of Lois Lowry's work, such as The Giver or Gathering Blue, or Westerfield's Specials series?

123. The Giver - Lois Lowry

... A Novel by Benjamin Black Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien The Giver by Lois Lowry all from Amazon The Fiddle Case by Christine Palamidessi Moore / an ARC LT Shelter Me by Juliette Fay/ an ARC Harper Collins all ...

... A Novel by Benjamin Black Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien The Giver by Lois Lowry all from Amazon The Fiddle Case by Christine Palamidessi Moore / an ARC LT Shelter Me by Juliette Fay/ an ARC Harper Collins showed ...

... things in a vaccuum - with the absolute confidence no one else will ever read them. ronincats: Right after putting down The Giver, I picked up Bernhard Schlink's The Reader. Have you read that one? Very interesting to read after The Giver.

... of Katerines continues to be mentioned -- so, I'm moving this one up on the list of tbr. Also, I agree about The Giver. It is an a powerful book.

... out in late October and I have seen some good reviews of it, although I have not yet had a chance to read it. As far as The Giver goes, I just discovered recently that it is the first book of a trilogy. If you are interested, the other 2 books are Gathering Blue and Messenger. I have ...

88. The Giver by Lois Lowry. Its been on my shelf for a long, long time; I'd never read it before. Last weekend, a friend chastised me for my negligence, and vehemently thrust it in my hands. So, I read it tonight in one sitting, my heart in my throat, sick was sadness. An amazing book. ...

... to celebrate his life by re-reading his Myth Adventures books. Some of these I haven't read in nearly 20 years. 22. The Giver by Lois Lowry 23. Another Fine Myth by Robet Asprin 24. Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin 25. Myth Directions by Robert Asprin 26. Hit or Myth ...

... Tycho & sequel - Jan Mark. Everything else of Mark's I've disliked, but this is excellent. Thematically similar to The Giver, but bleak. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness. We've been passing this around at work. Has a great first sentence and a frustrating ...

Hi My daughter recommended The giver years ago and I remember it as a wonderful book!

Alcott-I did like The Giver, I think that the reason why I was not over the moon about it was that the way the people who recommended it to me made it sound led me to believe that it was going to be better than it was. I definitely liked it but it was not as monumental as I expected. 93. The ...

#37: The Giver is actually the first book in a trilogy (and I agree that it is very good). The other books in the trilogy are Messenger and Gathering Blue.

The Giverby Lois Lowry I could not put this book down. It just flowed I'm only sorry the author did not develope it more. It's only about two hundred fifty pages.

... it, as it's a book he highly recommends. My brother's and my tastes don't overlap much -- we both like Harry Potter and The Giver but diverge from there, so I have no idea if I'll like it or not. Sometimes, though, I just like taking recommendations from family and friends because I don't ...

... - FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury (Science Fiction) - FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keyes (Science Fiction) - THE GIVER by Lois Lowry (Futuristic Fiction) - THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams (Science Fiction) THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkein (Fantasy) - I AM ...

#200 TrishNYC: I just read The Giver for the first time this year as well and enjoyed it - from the sounds of it, more than you did. I did not realize until today that The Giver is part of a trilogy, so if you are interested, the other two books are Gathering Blue and Messenger.

... have convinced me. Now I just have to look through my library and see what I am willing to part with. Hmmhhh... 91. The Giver by Lois Lowry. Apparently, I am one of the only people in America that had never heard of this book. I just found out about it two days ago as I was talking with ...

... Indian by Sherman Alexie (240 pp) 21. Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey (352 pp) I'm About half-way through The Giver. Total pages: 6,744

... Diary Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper The Giver by Lois Lowry Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Madapple by Christina Meldrum Nightjohn and Sarny ...

Not super recent, but The Giver, Gathering Blue, and one other by Lois Lowry are dystopian and (vaguely) futuristic. They're serious, but YA.

Not super recent, but The Giver, Gathering Blue, and one other by Lois Lowry are dystopian and (vaguely) futuristic. They're serious, but YA.

... Went to a bookcrossing meetup today and ended up taking home two books (a lot fewer than they were pressing on me): The Giver The Flamboya Tree

is Edward Scissorhands a book? Let's see... how about The Giver?

... Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 6.Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 7.The Giver by Lois Lowry 8. We by Yevgenry Zamyatin 9. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

... rare, since there are so many good new books always coming out. I did two re-reads this week for Banned Books Week--The Giver and Fahrenheit 451, both of which I enjoyed immensely. Think I'll be back on new reads for a while, though.

I think I'll be doing a re-read of either The Giver or The Perks of Being a Wallflower. But who knows what else could strike my fancy...it has been a while since I read The Color Purple. Or maybe I'll re-read a favorite Toni Morrison, since pretty much every single one of her books has ...

... No Time For Goodbye by Linwood barclay 6 East of The Sun by Julia Gregson 7 8 Newbery Winners Project 1 The Giver by Lois Lowry 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Catch My Eye 1 When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 2 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 3 Our ...

... Jane Austen Serious kid's books: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman The Giver by Lois Lowry Seriously funny books: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk Lamb by Christopher Moore Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett Non-Fiction: ...

... it seemed only a teaser and left me unsatisfied. 27. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry **** Set in the same world as The Giver, but in a village where hardship and selfishness is the rule. There is no attempt to teach ethics or morals to children and those with any kind of handicap are ...

1. Forest Chronicles series by Patricia Wrede (Dealing with Dragons, et. al.) 2. The Giver by Lois Lowry (and related books) 3. Heat by Mike Lupica 4. Painting the Black by Carl Deuker 5. The Third Eye by Lois Duncan 6. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart 7. The Hollow Hil ...

This may stray a bit into children's, but.... 1. The Lives of Christopher Chant 2. Alanna 3. Dark Visions 4. The Giver 5. The Diddakoi 6. Tuck Everlasting 7. Charlotte Sometimes 8. Playing Beatie Bow 9. House of Stairs 10. Strandia

... No Time For Goodbye by Linwood barclay 6 East of The Sun by Julia Gregson 7 8 Newbery Winners Project 1 The Giver by Lois Lowry 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Catch My Eye 1 When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 2 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 3 Our ...

... of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller 5 No Time For Goodbye by Linwood barclay 6 7 8 Newbery Winners Project 1 The Giver by Lois Lowry 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Catch My Eye 1 When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 2 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 3 Our ...

... patronizing (unfairly, but...). Cliff - if you have access to a library..the 3rd "Hungry Cities" picks up nicely, again. The Giver i'd say is more Jr High and the same w/ John Christopher's older classics. For a moderately open minded household, i'd add in Night Sky Mine which combines ...

... me of how much I enjoyed Madeline L'Engle and not just A Wrinkle in Time, but the whole series. And I thought The Giver was wonderful. I've decided that since I joined LT that reading all the books there were (let alone are and will be) is futile, but I am going to have fun ...

144. The Giver by Lois Lowry 145. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson 146. The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson 147. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer 148. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

... yet to be mentioned :) the alien series by Bruce Coville The Wrinkle In Time series by Madeleine L'Engle The Giver by Lois Lowry.

sydam: enjoy The Giver...it was one of the first books that really made an impression on me when I read it in 6th grade. Then, I re-read it in college a few years ago and appreciated it so much more. It is truly a work of art, and I hope you'll love it as much as I did. I officially *heart* ...

sydamy: I loved The Giver! It's one of our family's favorite. :-D I finished The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden today. I really enjoyed the book. It's an emotionally touching book, one I could really relate to. My review is sydamy in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 August 2008 (Aug 6, 2008, 6:57pm)

... and feel quite smug that I did that well before the Booker list came out. I just picked up from local thrift store: The Giver by Lois Lowry Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

... read alot of young adult lit as a young adult, but out of those I did read, I loved Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech The Giver by Lois Lowry A Horse Called Wonder by Joanna Campbell, and the rest in the Thoroughbred Series and I must give a shout out to Harry Potter, though I didn' ...

... and play. I loved Judy Blume, Nancy Drew and The Babysitters Club. The first book that really affected me was The Giver, which I read when I was 12, and from there on I was hooked. I read whatever I could get my hands on, including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret at least 15 ...

... reading these "what are you reading now" threads because they add more books to my TBR pile. Oh well! Rissa, I loved The Giver -- you should read it again, it's great. I'm still reading DH for the discussion, of course. I just finished the ER book I got this month, The Robe of Skulls ...

... you read the book?) And I love the 4 kids. They are great characters. I'm about to start rereading New Moon and read The Giver for the first time.

... The Kite Runner because of some of the content... for now. But some books are banned for utterly ridiculous reasons. The Giver has been challenged because it's "too violent" and has "sexual content" WHAT? have they read the book? 'Cause I've read it twice and never found the part where J ...

... To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994) 63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000) 64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997) 65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993) 66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997) 67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003) 68. Fun Home, ...

Most of what I wanted to mention has been mentioned above, although I think I'd like to 'second' The Giver The Little Princess Where the Red Fern Grows My Side of the Mountain and The Phantom Tollbooth I also wanted to add A Day No Pigs Would Die

... was delightfully creepy as well. Very memorable. I will be putting Gathering Blue on my lengthy list of must reads. The Giver left me wanting more. Usually not my type of book, but I found the premise intriguing. Finally, I am just getting into Wharton's The Age of Innocence. I ...

52. Gathering blue by Lois Lowry I liked this much better than it's companion The giver. Again we're in the future, but this future looks a lot more like our middle ages, again the protagonist discovers a secret, that changes her view of the world. I found this 'future' a lot more ...

... Chronicle, Haruki Murakami * The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley * Fingersmith, Sarah Waters * The Giver, Lois Lowry * A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

The Woman in Black / The Woman in White The Giver / The Collector M. Butterfly / Madame Butterfly Incredible Good Fortune / Misfortune Circus Days / Nights at the Circus

... Blue 6. Predator's Gold 7. Mortal Engines 8. The Giver

... for school, though. Some have found it a rather controversial book for public school and I liken it to Lois Lowry's The Giver.

Artemis Fowl, The Giver, Where the Red Fern Grows, My Side of the Mountain, Lightning Thief, Chronicles of Narnia, Children of the Lamp, Chasing Vermeer, Fire Within.

46. The giver by Lois Lowry Like the previous a book, this is an LT-recommendation. I love the premise and the way this society is described. But I did feel the ending was a bit rushed. I was waiting for a big emotional release that didn't happen for me. It reminded me a lot of This perfect ...

... subject material or the images. The line between juvenile/YA and adult books is getting quite blurry. Mary mentioned The Giver-that's a great story, but it's also a bit shocking and powerful, so I would want to use my understanding of my child's maturity to decide whether or not to steer ...

... 6th or 7th grade and I didn't object. I just think there are some books better left to certain levels of understanding. The Giver is another I would suggest waiting a bit on if I felt my child wasn't ready for it.

... it has similarities to Invasion but I put it more on the level of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World or Lois Lowry's The Giver. It's amusing that The Host has shown up twice in the same thread... I used the quote from Ch. 1 earlier...lol!

... For the most part, there's much less name calling. Would you read the willoughbys by Lois Lowry? I've only read The Giver and I'd be interested in what her other writing is like. I've just posted a review of If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!. That was an ...

Hi everyone- While I love dystopian novels, I especially love YA dystopias. Any recommendations? I'll add The Giver, Uglies, Life as We Knew it and Feed to the list of great YA dystopian novels. Others?

... I made it in about forty pages, I just was hoping something would happen...if it did, I guess I'll never know. I enjoyed The Giver, I was teaching and it was on the reading list. The kids had problems with their parents borrowing the book when they needed it to do their homework. Back in ...

... I've heard of it.. its on my need to read list.. which numbers in the hundreds, but thats another story...) and I loved The Giver I hope that our world NEVER turns into that, but it was interesting!

... to Chapter 20 last night and am liking it even more now. It reminds me a lot of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and The Giver by Lois Lowry.

... thoroughly. It is definitely a thinking book. It reminds be quite a bit of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Giver by Lois Lowry.

... thoroughly. It is definitely a thinking book. It reminds be quite a bit of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Giver by Lois Lowry.

I don't hate much of anything but a couple I disliked are The Giver (which I might have posted earlier, sorry if it is a repeat) and Love in the Time of Cholera. I keep seeing reviews here about how wonderful the books are and just keep thinking I must be very, very strange.

... August.) Currently I'm reading Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. These aren't necessarily thought provoking like The Giver or Where the Red Fern Grows. Did anyone mention Bridge to Terabithia?

... ER book, Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide. With the whole family, we are starting A Wrinkle in Time. We finished The Giver on Thursday, and we've taken a couple days break to let it settle in. Maggie, my youngest, thought The Giver was sad. Still holding at 23

... Now I also have my ER book, Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide to read and review, as well. We finished reading The Giver, as a family, on Thursday, and will start reading A Wrinkle in Time tomorrow, probably. Still in the same spot in Skeleton Crew and The Prince. Don't ...

... print in it. I think she'll do better with it than the pocket books. She was upset because she didn't have a copy of The Giver and couldn't read along. She'll be happy with AWIT. MORE: While hunting for my nine-year-old's leotard, and late for dance class, I glanced at the ...

... print in it. I think she'll do better with it than the pocket books. She was upset because she didn't have a copy of The Giver and couldn't read along. She'll be happy with AWIT.

... swap books around to read each other's. My sisters have too few books for me to do that. I may ask one if I can borrow The Giver though, simply because I was trying to remember the story the other day and couldn't.

Sounds familiar. If I haven't read it I'd like to. Almost like an Aldous Huxley Brave New World or a Lois Lowry The Giver.

... Junie B., Lucy Rose, etc...) I'm going to count this book, because I wanted to read it, too. I won't, however, count The Giver twice, even though I'm rereading it with the whole family. So, with Mick and Firefly, I have finished 23.

The misfits by James Howe The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton The Giver by Lois Lowry and various manga

I am currently reading Firefly Rain as an ARC book, and The Giver with my kids. After that, I'm reading The Gun Runner's Daughter for the Go Review That Book!. After that, I don't know... maybe my ER if it's here by then... if not, maybe Plum Lovin'? It's a lite book.

... and other kids' things. I like SK, and I got this book because I saw and really liked the movie "The Mist." I'm reading The Giver by Lois Lowry with my kids because I read it for myself a couple weeks ago and thought it'd be a great one for us to read as a family. I love to read with ...

... viruses, murder, violence against women, gore The exorcist: Demon posession, supernatural violence, mental illness The Giver: Dystopia, euthanasia The Holy Bible: Supernatural violence, violence against women, gore, rape, graphic violence The Hot Zone: Gore, viruses Lolita: Pedo ...

... the recommendations associated with that, The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (and The Giver, which hasn't been touchstoned yet), Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, and The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman all bring back memories. (Had ...

... of the Dog in the Night-time Ella Enchanted Fahrenheit 451 Feed Flowers for Algernon Gathering Blue The Giver (as a child) A Great and Terrible Beauty The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hobbit I Am the Messenger Life of Pi The Lion, the Witch, and ...

... Enchanted Flowers for Algernon Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (2-3 times) Gilead The Girls The Giver A Great and Terrible Beauty The Handmaid's Tale The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hobbit (2-3 times) Les Miserables (2 times) Lord of the R ...

... of her room was her bookshelf, which we all stood around looking at for a good long time. We took her three copies of The Giver and stuck them side by side, her boyfriend tossed out her non-repairable copy of Post Mortem, and she gave away her second copy of Chicken Soup for the Teenage ...

Having read The Giver two weeks ago, and already rereading it this time with my kids, I've picked up three or four more books by Lois Lowry. The kids are also loving The Giver, and they want me to read Gathering Blue with them next.

... genes. It's humorous where appropriate, sometimes irreverant, and made me want to be Greek... I so want a ya-ya! 3. The Giver by Lois Lowry. I loved this book! I love how Lowry builds a world complete with it's own rules and history. I especially appreciate that it follows the natural ...

... the stoies in that book. She covers my mouth when I read it out loud. Haven't touched The Prince, and I'm rereading The Giver, this time with the whole family. Finished 15 ... Nay on Shazdeh (Farsi for "Prince"... Since I DID just finish The Kite Runner ;-)

... I'm ready for a re-read already, but I might be able to contribute a few comments here and there. This year I've also read The Giver by Lois Lowry and Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series, so I could also contribute a few comments on those, if people wanted to read them. The books I've ...

... talk about War and Peace was harder to read than War and Peace itself? Also, Gathering Blue (the next book after The Giver) is just fabulous -- in general actually Lois Lowry is good for a quality quick read, but that's a whole nother thing. How old is your daughter, out of curiosity?

... post: 1. Lady Susan by Jane Austen 2. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 3. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks* 4. The Giver - Lois Lowry 5. As We Are Now - May Sarton 6. Run - Ann Patchett 7. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson* 8. Sitting Practice - Caroline Adderson (ARC) ...

... trippy 60's-ness of the film... Handmaid's Tale is also very good, and if you enjoy YA fiction at all, Lois Lowry's The Giver is similar... heck, even if you don't like/read YA, try The Giver!

... of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller 5 No Time For Goodbye by Linwood barclay 6 7 8 Newbery Winners Project 1 The Giver by Lois Lowry 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Catch My Eye 1 When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 2 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 3 Our ...

I also suggest Ann Rinaldi and Garth Nix (stupid touchstone). The Giver is a must read and around twelve was when I first really understood it. At twelve my favorite books were His Dark Materials by Philip Pulman. They have interesting themes, and the writing is geared towards ...

... finishing up The Darkest Evening of the Year, I have less than 100 pages to go. Then I'm picking up Atonement, then The Giver by Lois Lowery, and after that Eragon and Eldest in that order." I've gotten through almost all the ones I planned to, am on Eldest right now, and ...

... Luen Yang Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman The Giver - Lois Lowry

Finished The Giver and it's definately one of my favorites. My shortlist reccomendations for this quarter would be Middlesex, The Road, and The Giver. p'shah on the rest of 'em... Maybe include The Store. Finished Larryisms and had to trudge the last half. It would have been ...

... She definately looks like sh has that precociousness and humor that we've grown to love in Junie B. BTW, I just finished The Giver and it's phenomenal. I'm deeply touched and impressed at the depth and ability to imagine a different world, with all it's rules, a world that is possibly the ...

I just finished The Giver and think that would be a beautiful movie... then I checked IMDb and guess what! Someone else thought so too. Due for a 2011 release, though. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435651/

thekoolaidmom - I would recommend The Giver as well. There are also a few more books in the series that only interconnect at a later point. They all have a similar kind of theme, the child who undoes a socially accepted framework that is oppressive in some way. Each story can stand on its own as ...

>44-The Giver and Wrinkle in Time are some of my favorite YA books. I read Wrinkle in Time in the 6th grade and related with Meg, so it was one I read frequently growing up-and the entire rest of the series. I didn't read The Giver until I had to start defending it's placement in school ...

... them! My 15-year-old finished reading The Outsiders and The Phantom Tollbooth recently, and I'm getting ready to read The Giver with her... or A Wrinkle in Time, honestly I have always found Wrinkle to be an impossible book to read, though I don't know why.

... who..." lines. I'm also nursing Skeleton Crew when I'm out and about, but that one will take awhile. I'm starting The Giver next as my main reading. Finished 10... still haven't finished Machiavelli's The Prince

I just finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. It's one of my favorites. I think I probably read this one every year.

... not outstanding - execution and sometimes juvenile prose. I know its a YA book, but having just finished Lois Lowry's The Giver, I was struck by the fact that although both books are written for younger audiences, The Giver never felt to me like anything other than an adult book. Uglies ...

... not outstanding - execution and sometimes juvenile prose. I know its a YA book, but having just finished Lois Lowry's The Giver, I was struck by the fact that although both books are written for younger audiences, The Giver never felt to me like anything other than an adult book. Uglies ...

... finishing up The Darkest Evening of the Year, I have less than 100 pages to go. Then I'm picking up Atonement, then The Giver by Lois Lowery, and after that Eragon and Eldest in that order. It's spring break and two out of three kids are gone. I'm gonna catch up on AAALLLLL my ...

... Lent by Albert Holtz 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Richard and Judy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Newbery Winners Project 1 The Giver by Lois Lowry 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Catch My Eye 1 When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 2 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 3 The ...

My boyfriend had never read The Giver, and I insisted that he must. So we both read it. Still wonderful, even as an adult.

... Prejudice - Jane Austen 4. O Pioneers! - Willa Cather 5. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding 6. The Giver - Lois Lowry 7. Atonement - Ian McEwan 8. In the Presence of Mine Enemies - Edward Ayers

... Ellis The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Giver by Lois Lowry Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Perfume by Patrick Suskind The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs Blind ...

#156: I'm reading The Giver to my class right now (11 & 12 yr olds - not sure what US grade that is). They love it too. I've read it to about 4 other classes over the years and it is always the book that keeps the kids' attention more than any other. They do need help understanding some of the ...

20. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Every second post I was reading in here lately seemed to be talking about this book and The Giver, so I had to try it too. Back when I studied writing for young people at uni, I read heaps of children's and YA books, but it's been a relatively long time ...

The Giver, Messenger, Gathering Blue, Gossamer, Meeting at Corvallis The Protector's War, Dies the Fire, Fly By Night, A Place Called Attar by J.D. Belanger

... and Year of Wonders (thank you, Borders coupons). From Amazon, I've got coming People of the Book (for book club), The Giver (a nice hardback edition of one of my favorite books) and The River Queen (a really nice sale, I think it was less than $5 new for a hardback).

... sad at the end, but I think she should be old enough to handle it. The Little House in the Big Woods - classic! The Giver - the concepts and themes might be a little advanced, but should make her think. And hopefully someday she'll reread it and understand them better. (I wrote ...

... especially since the No Country for Old Men movie came out, and for anyone interested in YA/Juv it's Lois Lowry's The Giver or Gossamer or Number the Stars...

... G.G. Marquez Tom Robbins, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis and this month it's Lois Lowry* -- The Giver, Number the Stars, etc... *how can she not come up with a touchstone?!?!?!?

#18 TeacherDad: Nothing wrong with juvenile fiction as far as I can see. I loved The Giver by Lois Lowry and just finished up the first book in Catherine Jinks Pagan series, Pagan's Crusade myself. Hey, I missed a bunch of the good stuff in my first childhood!

... - Anne Fadiman (NF-essays) Review (15) The Giver - Lois Lowry (F) Review

As some have mentioned The Giver by Lowry was the first book that got me extremely excited about reading. It's still one of my favorites. #92> I didn't know there was anyone else out there who remembered The Juniper Game! It was also one of my favorites... had a big effect on how I saw ...

... but calling it out b/c I loved it! Review (17) The Giver - Lois Lowry (F) Review

... Grows, The Ruins of Gorlan , Here, There Be Dragons, Artemis Fowl, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Eragon, The Giver. I work in a bookstore and these are some that are popular and that I myself have enjoyed greatly. Plus many others that were already listed!

1. The Giver by Lois Lowry 2. The Cat of Bubastes by G.A. Henty 3. Tilly by Frank Peretti

The last one is The Messenger, and it sort of connects the other two. I didn't really like the sequels so much as The Giver. Plus the Messenger tells you what happened to Jonas at the end of the Giver and I always like the ambiguity of it. At different times in my life, I believed in ...

Just finished Gathering Blue, similar to The Giver, are they on the same planet, is there a book that connects everyone?

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Feast of Love The Good Earth Little Women To Kill a Mockingbird The Giver and The Babysitters Club books when I need to go back to my childhood!

... on her own, so she doesn't need me to read to her; I pick books I am interested in that I think she will like, too (like The Giver or A Wrinkle in Time). As someone pointed out, it takes a lot longer to read out loud, plus, I enjoy these books. It's usually only 3 or 4 books a year, ...

... Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 Garrison Keillor embraces his inner fourteen year-old. The bathroom humor got a bit old. 3. The Giver Another computer only book. About half-way through.... 4. The Mephisto Club

... this read like a succession of scenes rather than a coherent whole. That said, it held my interest til the end. 27. The Giver by Lois Lowry. Figured it was time I read this one. 28. Possum Perkins by William Taylor. This is published in the UK as Paradise Lane. It's quite ...

The Giver by Lois Lowry Fascinating book. More later.

The Giver by Lois Lowry Fascinating book. More later.

The Book Thief, Little Women, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Let me also add The Giver.

... a movie. I enjoyed many mentioned here including, Stargirl and all of the Weetzie Bat books are among my favorites! The Giver is also one of my all time favorites.

... The Murder Room) were good, but not my favorites of James' books, so probably not in the running for best of January. The Giver was also great. The Blind Assassin was definitely not a favorite, though--it was my third attempt to read the book, and I managed it and even enjoyed it, but ...

... I like is young adult literature- things like Harry Potter and New Moon. I also really tend to like dystopias like The Giver. To be fair, I haven't read much science fiction. A few classic titles like 1984 and Brave New World. I tried to read Hitchhiker's Guide but couldn't do ...

... by Alan Bennett This was just a lovely read about reading can change anyone, even the Queen of England. 10. The Giver by Lois Lowry This was the most recent book that my 10 year old daughter and I read aloud to each other. We both cried quite a bit near the end of this. W ...

... Not the worst book I've ever read (far from it), but it wouldn't be high on my list of recommendations, either. #8 The Giver by Lois Lowry was a wonderful book. The story is beautiful and touching, and it is very well-written. It is one of those soul-enriching books that makes you ...

Although I'm not always a fan of ambiguous endings, I think it was the most appropriate way for The Giver to wrap up, especially because it's a YA novel--in other words, geared toward younger readers who are still learning to think and question information. A concrete ending with a single ...

>17-The Giver! Just read this one so I can book talk it to a class. OK, I just couldn't let that one stay. I'm done cutting in line. :)

... Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon In a Far Country by John Taliaferro Touching the Void by Joe Simpson The Giver by Lois Lowry Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Shattered Air by Bob Madgic A Country Year by Sue Hubbell Beluga Days by Nancy Lord Well, that's ...

This is either The Thief of Always or The Giver. Probably the first.

2 The Giver by Lois Lowry Read for My 888 Newbery Project group Winter Reading Challenge

While I enjoyed The Giver and found it engaging and powerful, I didn't love it. I had a hard time with the idea that the characters can't see colors. Maybe Lowry is trying to convey the idea that the society downplays individuality to the extent that its members actually stop seeing ...

... Fahrenheit 451 * Ender's Game * The Lovely Bones Dune (no touchstone??) * Beowulf: A New Verse Translation The Giver Alternative Cat Idea 1: Mystery Blacklist READ Brown-Eyed Girl READ Miss Pym Disposes READ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time A ...

... Alt. Reality, etc.) (1) The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel – Kevin Brockmeier (F) - 01/05/2008 (2) The Giver - Lois Lowry (F - dystopia) - 03/18/2008 (3) Uglies - Scott Westerfeld (F - possible dystopia) - 03/23/2008 (4) The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde ( ...

My last book was going to be Tomorrow by Graham Swift, but I finished it on the 30th; so I read The Giver by Lois Lowry and still had a couple of hours to kill before getting ready for our New Year's Eve party...so I also read Kafka's Soup: a complete history of world literature in 14 ...

... so many that I could name and a bunch more that I have on my TBR stack. Ones that I have read include: The Book Thief, The Giver, The Warden, Einstein's Dreams, Three Cups of Tea, Crow Lake, and I could go on. I have checked out of the library for reading: How to Read Literature Li ...

I didn't really like Tomorrow, but read The Giver which was good....even for sci-fi, which I'm not really fond of. And I loved, loved, loved Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes by Mark Crick.

... Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 7. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 8. TBR* I've already read The Giver, Bridge to Terabithia, From the Mixed-Up Files... and A Wrinkle in Time.

I would choose The Giver by Lois Lowry. Mainly because once my son read it, or I should say devoured it, he had the reading bug big time. I still recommend it to young adults when I get a chance. Any book that lights a fire in a kid's mind is essential in every library, in my humble ...

... green the chocolate war by robert cormier hole in my life by jack gantos boy meets boy by david levithan the giver by lois lowry i chose them because i think they are excellent examples of how deep and rich young adult and youth literature can be.

I haven't read The Giver yet, although my daughter really liked it and I plan to read it soon, but I have to echo the shout-out for Holes and Love That Dog. They are both about boys, so don't meet the criteria requested for this thread, but they are both very good.

I just finished The Giver and agree, it was wonderful.

... on. That means I have had to read some of the same books, and, frankly, my life has been richer for having read Holes, The Giver, and Love that Dog.

... top 2 non-fiction: 1. Wild Swans Jung Chang 2. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad My top 2 children's: 1. The Giver by Lois Lowry 2. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

... Young Reader's Medal are good bets. Newbery will cover you from grades 5 and up, and you can't go wrong, really - The Giver, From the Mixed Up Files..., A Single Shard, anything by Gail Carson Levine...

... it. I like your take: Jane Austen with snark! I finished The Art of Mending yesterday (so-so at best) and read The Giver today (wonderful, absolutely wonderful ... I plan to bask in its aura for the rest of this evening). Next up: Barbara Pym's Excellent Women. I've not ...

I loved The Giver-I try to read the books that get banned or challenged the most. This is one of the few that I would enjoy reading even if it wasn't as a parent/librarian. I'd forgotten how much I loved Lois Lowry's books as a child until I read this one.

I just finished The Art of Mending and will start The Giver tonight. A couple of short reads, which are a nice break for me.

... So, here's my list, such as it is: Specials Sorcery and Cecelia Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics The Giver (reread) American Born Chinese Gathering Blue The Phantom Tollbooth Born on a Blue Day Looking for Alaska Voices from Chernobyl The Droughtland ...

I find that the students in my high school library have great affection for The Giver and many count it among their favourite books. Having it displayed during Banned Book Week got a fair bit of discussion going.

... Batya Gur Grievous Sin by Faye Kellerman Saturday by Ian McEwan The Master by Colm Toibon The Giver by Lois Lowry, which I have heard wonderful things about here on Library Thing

... in today and bought books, although not as many as wisewoman and uath! The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Giver by Lois Lowry--to read aloud with my daughterAtonement by Ian McEwan A Certain Justice by P.D. James Original Sin by P.D. James Should ...

two jump out at me as head and shoulders (spine and pages?) above the rest: The Road by McCarthy and The Giver by Lowry... I'll have to get back with the next 3...

>139 I didn't really care for The Giver that much either. I found it to be very distressing.

... of Mending - review, emotional manipulative pulp, ick. 68. The Giver - review, fantastic Newbery award-winning, dystopian novel. Very thought-provoking. 69. Excellent Wo ...

I didn't like The Giver. I know it won a Newbery and all, but I thought it was too depressing for younger kids. It might be appropriate for middle school and higher, but unfortunately I think it is in many elementary school libraries as well.

I agree with whoever said The Giver. Also, In one of Robert McCammon's books- the short story one, there is a story called Pin (I think), and it's about a guy who sticks a pin directly into the pupil of his eye. God, that was actually painful to read. Sula by Toni Morrison, probably ...

#42 The Giver is creepy, I agree. And In Cold Blood has pretty much cured me of ever wanting to have a farm in the country. Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza with its description of ever-increasing murderous propagandizing on the radio before the terrible events occurred...and how the ...

... hopes dashed from the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. This is a long way of saying that I can't really comment about the Giver directly.

... talk to anyone in order to check out a harder book. "Age-appropriate" is highly dependent on the child, I think. I read The Giver around 4th grade and loved it. The horrible things were horrible, but they were done by the *bad* guys, so you expected them to be horrible. (I also haven't read ...

I think The Giver is more of a 6th or 7th grade book, but some 4th graders would get it. I find the discussion about teaching style very interesting. As an English major I got so much more from the 3 day a week classes where we talked about a book while reading it then the once a week class ...

... I need to check the official list; I'm reading My Brother Sam is Dead this weekend... edited to say: Duh, I just read The Giver too...

... to get rid of it'. If a student needs to be worked with that much on a chapter-by-chapter basis, then I suggest that The Giver is not the right book for them, because they won't get what they could out of a book like this anyway.

... the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder the very first chapter book I read myself 8. Prey Novels by John Sandford 9. The Giver by Lois Lowry the very first book that made me look around at the world I lived in 10. The Kama Sutra by some unknown monk LOL just joking 10. Fahrenheit 451 ...

... is quite tame!" as I cruised through the first several chapters... Then came THE SCENE and I can't imagine assigning The Giver to a 4th grade class, especially to go read on their own. Maybe I'm over-protective, but I want to be able to discuss it w/ my kids when they read it -- it's ...

All good choices... I just read The Giver and have not decided to give it to my 5th grader or save it a year or so...

... to make me cry I'll find something more cheerful... how about Snicket's The End and Oryx and Crake? Also need to finish The Giver tonite, have a feeling that's not going to turn out pretty...

... ones. I know people will think I'm crazy but the book I found the most disturbing of what I've read most recently is The Giver by Lois Lowry.

... by Laurie Perry The Library of Benjamin Franklin by Edwin Wolf The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory The Giver by Lois Lowry Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Cross Abou ...

Oh yeah, forgot I picked up The Giver the other day... get to read that one this week as well....

I just finished The Giver. It was a very good book. Now I'm deep into Gone with the Wind. I'm amazed at how closely the movie followed the book!

I'm just a few chapters from finishing Uglies then on to The Giver...

I read it and loved it! In fact, I recommended it on our The Giver discussion thread to anyone who liked the Giver. Overall I just loved the world it was set in, especially in The Wind Singer. The other two were good but didn't make as much of an impression on me... What are you thinking about ...

I'm a big fan of The Giver, and I think it's a good book to teach in school. However, I don't think a 9 yr old would get most of what Lowry is trying to say. I think they would, at best, just get the surface story. So the book is wasted on grade 4s. My daughter is almost 11 and I haven't ...

I'm 36 and The Giver disturbed the heck out of me when I read it a few months back. I was a little surprised when people said they had read it in elementary school.

My nine-year-old son who is in the fourth grade brought home The Giver and was asked to read chapter 2 on his own. While I would never suggest that any book be challenged in a school or library, I am concerned about age-appropriatness and whether or not he's ready for such a complicated book. He' ...

... No Mouse but, thinking about age range, I would still call it young adult. It's certainly written at a higher level than The Giver, which comes up a lot in discussions here as a favorite young adult title. Also, the writing is sophisticated - an adult will get as much, or more, out of it ...

I didn't even know there was a Banned Book Week! As a child, I absolutely loved The Giver and just about any dystopia books like that. Anthem by Ayn Rand is another one that was pretty good. The thing that makes me incredibly sad - you can't help but marvel at the irony of it - is ...

... the munchkins that are reappearing on the BookTalk thread - and got slammed for horning in on "their" discussions about The Giver, me, and "canibles." The person below me thinks raspberry truffle crunch ice cream should be listed as one of the deadly sins. (Get thee behind me, Truffle.) ...

... studying children's literature at university and then children's services in library school! The ones that stand out: The Giver by Lois Lowry The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graeme Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

... Children of Men together with the movie. There was a group discussion of The Giver in the Read YA Lit group a while back, if anyone's interested in joining that one a bit late.

... The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. The Road is also on my TBR pile and I wouldn't mind reading and discussing The Giver again.

... to buy an Aikido book for one of my former students but the one I wanted was not on the shelf. Came home instead with The Giver by Lois Lowry Icelander by Dustin Long St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell and from the "3 for $2" table: A Peopl ...

... to buy an Aikido book for one of my former students but the one I wanted was not on the shelf. Came home instead with The Giver by Lois Lowry Icelander by Dustin Long St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell and from the "3 for $2" table: A People ...

... Wells The Croquet Player by H.G. Wells We by Yevgeny Zamyatin A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Giver by Lois Lowry Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Children of Men by P.D. James (I still haven't seen the movie, so its all new to me) Lord ...

... to the thread: Uglies. It's a young adult read about beauty and perfection, but I enjoyed it. I also heartily recommend The Giver. I've got The Road, Fahrenheit 451, and The Handmaid's Tale all on my to be read list, so it sounds like I've got a few good reads in front of me!

The Giver by Lois Lowry The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou The Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) The Alanna quartet by Tamora Pierce and my absolute favorite, which I own in English, Filipino, French, German, and Latin: The Little Prince ...

... a little less believable, though if that had been included, the author's point wouldn't have been so starkly clear. Like The Giver, I see Feed as a dystopia, and I feel that in utopic/dystopic literature, like allegory, the story always takes a back seat to the message. That's not to say ...

... the end. Things moved too quickly and deteriorated too drastically without much explanation. I had the same feeling reading The Giver. Like the author started out with a great and new idea but somehow implemented it hastily. I take it the author has a bleak view of humanity as it is. I ...

... explained thoroughly enough. It seems like a common pitfall of YA Fiction though. I remember thinking the same thing about The Giver. Probably due to the low page count. All-in-all a worthy read. Won't take longer than a few hours.

... think they're as great, but I think they're worth reading. Also, her new book Gossamer is wonderful...not connected to The Giver at all, but still wonderful. Have fun with The Kite Runner. I LOVE IT! I am now reading The Bell Jar. Not sure what to think so far. I'm a huge fan ...

#95-bunagsbooks: From what I've read, the next two are nowhere near as good as The Giver. Is it worth reading them? On another note...The Kite Runner is seriously killing me. What was I thinking, reading this book while pregnant and emotional! *lol*

#80 (ladybookworm) -- read the next two "companion" novels after The Giver: Gathering Blue and The Messenger. They're not exactly a trilogy but the third book ties the first two together. I think you'll like the ending better after you read the next two...I sure did.

Just finished Koko by Peter Straub. It wasn't bad, but I wouldn't read it again. Also just finished The Giver by Lois Lowry. HATED the ending. Now I'm on to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I have very high expectations of this one, based on the LT reviews!

#11 - That reminds me, in eighth grade I read a book (The Giver) the whole way through the first day we got it. I had an interesting time pretending I hadn't done so when we discussed it every day for the next two weeks! I was generally ahead but not that ahead. I still am generally ahead ...

... last posted, I have finished New Moon and can't wait till it's my turn at the library for Eclipse I just finished The Giver today and have now started Gathering Blue. Having just got back from the library the other day my tbr pile is full of YA. Here's what's next for me: The Me ...

53. The Giver by Lois Lowry Highly recommended! This book was a re-read for me but I read it long enough (7-8 years) ago that I didn't quite remember all the details. This is a compelling story of a dystopian society. A quick yet thought-provoking read that should be on everyone's to-be-rea ...

I'm just getting into YA lit, and have so many books on my wishlist! The Glass Castle Bridge to Terabithia The Giver Holes Looking For Alaska Speak Cut Monster Feed Lord of the Flies Twilight New Moon Peeps I Am The Messenger I'll get around to them ...

... kids, a lot of special needs kids, and very few normal kids to average it out. She assigned us the first two chapters of The Giver over a weekend. When we got back, she asked how we liked it so far, and I raised my hand and said, really apologetic, "Uh, I finished it. I couldn't help it." A ...

... is superficial or temporary. Might explain why the book was so easy to read. I am painfully reminded of the sequels to The Giver. Knowing this, I would probably not read the sequels to this book. As an aside, I noticed a couple of posts here had posted spoilers without the warning.

... of the Flies by William Golding since I missed out on reading that in high school. up next, I think I will be reading The Giver by Lois Lowry (i need something short since i caved yesterday and preordered the new Harry Potter..oops)

I read Number the Stars as an adult, and I did love it. My husband read The Giver to his middle school kids for many years (special ed kids who didn't do much reading themselves) and they liked it. When I went to school, there were really lame books to read, although we had our share of Lord ...

The Giver by Lois Lowry. One of my faves.

... adequate with a bow. And she was a noble who would rather hang out with the outlaws. Also, she was pretty. Fiona from The Giver, with her red hair—she also seemed to me like the most likely candidate for understanding Jonas, though I’m sure just the opposite actually happened in the ...

... they've had some pretty good stuff. today i picked up The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells The Giver by Lois Lowry The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham

... night. The wind was whistling like....." I would add the writer to my favorites but after reading the follow ups to The Giver my new rule is minimum two good books before adding an author. I'm not sure, but I don't remember my YA reading assignments having things as racy as ...

... the Messenger): 44 December (Uglies): 31 January (Boy Meets Boy): 23 February (Sorcery and Cecelia): 44 March (The Giver): 36 April (The Glass Castle): 27 May (American Born Chinese and Maus): 15 I don't know what the explanation behind the numbers is. Does anyone know?

... so I'm only posting this now. I'll also have to catch up on the previous month's books if that's ok. I really liked The Giver. I've been on a Utopian society kick lately so I can add this book to that group. I wanted to address some conversations before moving into the spoiler portion of ...

1. Title: Bud, Not Buddy Author: Christopher Paul Curtis 2. Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry 3. Title: The Hero and the Crown Author: Robin McKinley 4. Title: Dear Mr. Henshaw Author: Beverly Cleary 5. Title: Bridge to Terabithia Author: Katherine ...

#23 Please see my reviews on Gathering Blue and Messenger in my 50 books challenge post. I really enjoyed The Giver but found the sequels to be a waste of time compared to it. Messenger was especially painful to read. They are short reads however. I think I finished both in the same day.

yes, The Giver is first in the series, Gathering Blue is second, and Messenger is third. they are in the same world, but in different towns.

16. Title: Gathering Blue Author: Lois Lowry Notes: Average follow-up to the Newbery Award winning book The Giver. The environment is too "in your face". We see poverty and abuse of authority. People constantly slapping their kids, killing each other, fighting for weapons. And yet they ...

15. Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Notes: Terrific book for the most part. The way that the story builds up to the ending was a nice touch. I was disappointed with the last few chapters though. The story seemed rushed and manufactured towards the end. I did not like the attempt at ...

I'm a heavy library user. Borrowed The Giver, Get out of your mind & into your life, Why can't you shut up?, and The Time Traveler's Wife. The library by my house is open late tonight so I'm planning on picking up a few more.

... deliveries today! - When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka, recommended on one of these threads by cestovatela - The Giver, by Lois Lowry - Hot Six, by Janet Evanovich

... have to be deducted manually. Random poll: do you usually vote for books that you've read before? I only did once, for The Giver, and that was because I needed to re-read it in order to read the sequels. But I think I'm in the minority on this.

#98 Another book so much like The Giver that its author ought to be in court is Truesight. It was on our state reading list this year and it was such a ripoff it was embarassing. Had I not read The Giver first, I probably would have enjoyed it, but the quality of writing was just not the ...

#102, Zoe, I will check out the group discussion for The Giver. Thanks for the tip. I actually went out and ordered The Maerlande Chronicles after I wrote about it here... I haven't read it in such a long time. Elisabeth Vonarburg was/is a French citizen living in Quebec. After all ...

I finished The Giver about a week ago but haven't been online much to write about it. I had read it years ago and this was a refresher. I actually listened to the audiobook. I can understand people having a problem with the abrupt ending. Since reading it about 10 years ago, I've thought ...

... summer). I loved The Keeper of the Isis Light, and I liked The Chrysalids and A Wrinkle in Time too. If you do try The Giver again, you should join in the group discussion from a couple of months ago! http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=8507

... Westerfeld January Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan February Sorcery and Cecelia byPatricia C. Wrede March The Giver by Lois Lowry April The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls May Graphic Novels American Born Chinese and Maus June Looking for Alaska by John Green ...

... Castle eventually!). It just seems better to read books that most of the readers loved (just look at the rating graphs for The Giver or Looking for Alaska compared to, say, Flush). I would be interested in books that had ridiculously high standard deviations in rating, like mostly ones ...

I think it should be something a bit lighter. In four consecutive months we've had (or will have) The Giver, The Glass Castle, Maus, and Looking for Alaska. One book that I keep seeing people praise here is The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle, and it has a high rating.

Book #12 Title: Plain Truth Author: Jodi Picoult Book #13 Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Book # 14 Title: Rage Author: Stephen King Book #15 Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Author: Ishmael Beah

The Giver was the YA Lit Group's book for March (March? maybe Feb?). I had never read it before...enjoyed it but found the end abrupt and unsatisfying. Let us know what you think of it this time around...

I started reading The Giver yesterday. I read it a few years ago but decided I needed a refresher if I wanted to include it in my "Newbery Challenge"

So I finished Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult yesterday, and now I'm reading Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and Rage by Stephen King. An interesting combination. ;)

#97 - I'm glad to know your students responded so well to The Giver. I guess while it didn't appeal to me right away, it did to many other readers including your young adults there! I'm really compelled to give that book another chance, a genuine one. #98 - Well, I guess my claim was pretty ...

there are so many other more compelling YA books dealing with the same themes. Which ones? I love The Giver, so I'm always interested to hear about other books like it.

I strongly disliked Lois Lowry's The Giver. It was selected for a reading class for a group of young teenagers living in Asia. --Perhaps because I thought there were so many more appropriate, appealing, and culturally resonant books for those specific kids, and perhaps because of my snobby ...

... in their genres which I didn't really enjoy are Whitney My Love (romance where the misunderstandings were too redundant), The Giver (YA that was too disturbing for me) and Thirsty (YA that was too depressing).

... Smith The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy Eon by Greg Bear The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory The Giver by Lois Lowry Bridget Jones - the Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Cross Abo ...

Tafadhali, you should join in our discussion of The Giver from last month!

... Dahl, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, and most of all The Giver by Lois Lowry. I've actually managed to talk everyone in my family, my non-reading younger siblings and my parents, to read The Giver, and all of them loved ...

... Read YA Lit group we're discussing The Giver by Lois Lowry and the idea of Utopian societies (near bottom of discussion). I just posted there and am surprised by how that discussion melds into the ...

... think the idea of a utopian society is a good one, but the thought of losing ones individuality and right to choice (as in The Giver)freaks me out. Therefore I guess personally I'm also not ready for the reality of a utopian society. We would have to completely re-think the basic structure of ...

... of the Dust" by Louise Lawrence “The Scarlet Plague” by Jack London “Year Zero” by Jeff Long "The Giver" by Lois Lowry “A Secret History of Time to Come” by Robie MacAuley “I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon ...

I don't think Lowry was saying the society in The Giver was bad, on the whole. Some aspects of the society seem wonderful to me -- letting children choose their own pursuits, "volunteerism" (of a sort) being integral to education, creative ways of teaching interdependence and independence (coats ...

The Giver is disturbing...I didn't cry, but it was disturbing...

The Giver by Lois Lowry. I found it to be a deeply disturbing book even though people in junior high read it.

In The Giver families are not biological. I found this very interesting. In our society today more and more "families" are not defined by being biologically related. Do you think Lowry described this alternative family unit because families are changing in our society or is this just a ...

... wit the perspective of a 10-year-old. If you're looking to hack away at your TBR list, go for the short ones first, like The Giver. If you want to LOL, then I've noticed you 've got lots of Douglas Adams books. I've read all of his stuff. His Dirk Gently books are surprizingly ...

... book. It switched perspective often, which didn't bother me as much as it usually does. The plot reminded me somewhat of The Giver, but without the explanantions to back up why Elysia is the way it is or even how it works. The book feels incomplete. 42. *The View from Saturday by E. L. ...

Probably A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, followed by The Giver and To Kill a Mockingbird.

... books that bring me back to my childhood: The Babysitters Club, From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Giver, Just as Long as We're Together, Ramona books.

Thanks for all the good suggestions. I usually don't like a lot of historical fiction. Thanks for the suggestion of The Giver; it's one of my favorites! I will be checking out Life as we Knew it and am also really interested in Sorcery and Cecelia. Also really want to check out Senses Working ...

There's a discussion of The Giver going on right now in the Read YA Lit group. You might want to check there.

... I think what changed my mind about potentially reading the sequels is the realization that Jonas didn't die at the end of The Giver (sometimes spoilers aren't such a bad thing). When I read the book it never entered my mind that he lived.

... that even the most popular authors still need editors. The fifth book especially should have been shorter. ***Spoilers for The Giver*** So, that said, I was satisfied with the development of Jonas' decision to leave. I think the going-nowhere-for-a-really-long-time ending was the main problem ...

... actually will be in April YA Movie Book Club (I mediate): Where the Heart Is byBillie Letts Read YA Lit (LT Group): The Giver byLois Lowry

... how awful the second book of the trilogy was. ***Potential Spoilers for The Giver and Gathering Blue*** I thought The Giver was a lot more powerful than Gathering Blue because of the way their worlds got to be the way they were. In The Giver they had consciously adopted a policy of ...

... my original post re: the sequels, but... they're not very good. Well, okay. Gathering Blue is fine, about as good as The Giver, although the society it sets up is less interesting than Jonas's. One of my issues with both of those books is that they seem to spend all of their time with ...

***Spoilers*** It has been several months since I read The Giver. I always felt that Jonas died in the end. There was actually some comfort in that thought because of the burden he carried. I have not read Messenger but I will. I'm interested to see where Jonas' life takes him.

... can interpret it the way they want. I haven't read Messenger, but I don't think it would change my opinion about The Giver. The ending of The Giver makes it possible that Jonas died, and if he's still alive in Messenger I'd be more inclined to think it was like one of those bad ...

It's the books between "baby" books and Eragon I'm talking about -- books like Gilly Hopkins, Jacob Have I loved, The Giver, Fat Kid Rules the World, etc. The Newbery and Young Reader's Choice books, for example. When I was in the 4th grade I read Watership Down. I read Shogun in ...

... if more people were familiar with history--the good and the bad--if it wouldn't repeat. It disturbs me that the society in The Giver allows, actually requires the people be ignorant of history and that only one person holds that burden. **Spoiler** I can totally understand why Jonas ran ...

... definitely see it, especially if you're a Christian Bale fan. The movie is kind of a cross between Fahrenheit 451 and the Giver, with some of V for Vendetta mixed in. On the other hand, I personally would not recommend the movie version of 451. It was done back in the '60's, and while it ...

12. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry This is the second in a trilogy, but it's not the world of The Giver. I was dissapointed because I thought in some way that the world as portrayed in The Giver would be continued. I guess it could be argued that the village in Gathering Blue is one of ...

... leader of the town, and the sled is a real sled, and is in the town museum. Which (in my brain) makes the ending of the The Giver very deus-ex-machina-y and pat. Blech.

The Giver is my first YA dystopian book, so I've nothing with which to compare it. As a book, in general, I think it could have been fleshed out--more details, more story. I also found the end quite disappointing. Several critiques I've read indicated she purposely left the ending ambiguous so ...

I really enjoyed reading The Giver again and it's amazing how much of a difference rereading something can make. When I read this in elementary school there were many smaller things I don't think I understood as well as this time around... ***SPOILERS FOR THE GIVER AND UGLIES*** ... such as ...

This month we are discussing The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas lives in a utopian society where most decisions are made for him, even his career path--Jonas is chosen for something special which leads him to the dark secrets that ensures the fragile perfection of his world. Utopian/distopian ...

... I'm always asking about the discussions, but just one more thing: is there going to be a new thread for the discussion of The Giver, or are we just going to use the thread about that book that already exists? I personally like having the month of the discussion in the topic name, but maybe ...

I guess I would say my favorite of February was The Giver by Lois Lowry just because it was different from most of the crime dramas that I've been reading. And close second, but I will still give it a mention because it was a non-fiction book was The Innocent Man by John Grisham.

I've read Gathering Blue but not Messenger. I thought Gathering Blue started out at least as intense as The Giver, but sort of faded out after the very beginning. If you don't want to read other books like The Giver, I wouldn't recommend it. But sflax is right that Lois Lowry has ...

Hmmm, perhaps I will give her another shot, if The Giver is different from her other work. If you've read the two books that come after this one in the series, were they as intense as this one? Uplifting stories are definately more my speed :-)

The Giver was the book of the month on the Read YA Lit group so probably a few people will be reading or have read it. The book bothered me so much I had trouble sleeping that night so I'll probably skip any other books in that vein. It might be shallow, but I read for entertainment and am not ...

Thanks for that information. I had no idea. I only came to learn about The Giver from this site and other people's comments. I'll have to check out the next 2 books.

I read The Giver yesterday (not a romance) which I found to be a highly disturbing story. So since I couldn't sleep after that, I read the first story of the anthology Man of My Dreams which happened to be sitting next to my bed. It was a non-Dark Hunter Sherrilyn Kenyon story which I ...

I read The Giver by Lois Lowry today. I'm glad it's over with. Now I'm off to find a story that's upbeat and fluffy.

Starting The Giver today so I can catch up on the book of the month thread :-)

9. The Giver by Lois Lowry Excellent book! Only from reading various posts here on LT, that I learned about this book. I didn't read specifically about what the plot of the story was, but I'm very glad I picked it up from the library. If you haven't read it yet, take the time to get a copy.. ...

... short), but the climax of the book came at the very end and was probably only a page long. Currently Reading: The Giver by Lois Lowry

... Must Love Dragons asap!! It was a very cute book. Debating again as to what to read next.... the toss up is between The Giver for the YA group, The Demon's Daughter, The Dragon's Heart or re-reading Twilight. So many choices!! edited to get touchstones to work

I finished a re-read of The Giver a couple of days ago and started Gathering Blue, also by Lois Lowry. I loved The Giver, but I'm finding that for some reason Gathering Blue isn't quite holding my attention.

... of the summer. I've been reading some romances and now I am trying to decide between reading Reality Chick or The Giver and re-reading Twilight.

4. I re-read The Giver after at least 10 years and found it just as good as I'd remembered. It's a YA dystopian story, a genre I always enjoy. I'm looking forward to reading the two related books, Gathering Blue and Messenger, which I haven't read before.

Okay, I finally got around to re-reading The Giver. It was just as good as I remembered--but I wasn't quite satisfied with the ending last time either. ****SPOILER WARNING**** I think Jonas did reach his goal at the end. What bothered me about the ending more than the ambiguity was the fact ...

... we have had students that liked Uglies who have also really liked the Shadow Children Series--both futuristic...also The Giver might be a suggestion. Ok I know this might be an even bigger stretch...Feed by M.T. Anderson.

The last two books I bought were The Red Badge Of Courage and The Giver. My nieces are reading them in school so I thought I'd read along also. I finished The Giver quickly but am still working my way through The Red Badge of Courage.

... with The Book Thief and will be starting An Abundance of Katherines next. I'm also looking forward to rereading The Giver. I have a couple more that are next in my to be read stack that are not YA - A Canticle for Leibowitz and We Need to talk about Kevin.

Today I did a run through at the used book store (had to take a short lunch) and picked up The Giver which is an upcoming group read on the YA lit group and Wolf Tales, just because it looked interesting when I saw it the other day. I ordered my son's Valentine's day present from amazon and ...

... but an intriguing concept for a book. Now I'm waiting for The Last Days to come to the library near me, so I might reread The Giver as it's next month's discussion topic. What did you think of Running Out of Time, blbooks? That's always been a personal favourite of mine... Escape From Mem ...

The Giver is probably my favorite YA novel; if not, it's way up there. I love the trilogy in general, but The Giver is by far the best of the three. I have bought a ton of YA books within the past 3-4 months (nearly all suggestions from these boards) and I really need to make a TBR pile. A ...

... and Running Out of Time. Starting in February, I listened to audiobooks of Because of Winn Dixie, Gossamer, and The Giver. I read Gathering Blue and The Messenger. Overall, I thought the series was great. I read Double Helix by Nancy Werlin. In nonfiction, I read Team Moon: How 4 ...

I'm hoping to finish up Sorcery and Cecelia in the next few days. Then I'll probably go straight into The Giver, Messenger, and Gathering Blue. Despite being short, this should be a good reading month - I have a break coming up in a couple of weeks! I probably won't be reading much YA other ...

Discussion of The Giver will begin on March 1st in Read YA Lit Group

March Discussion: The Giver by Lois Lowry Continue to discuss here http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph... what you would like to read in March and beyond.

And the winner is... The Giver--4 King Dork--2 Reality Chick--2 So Yesterday--1 24 Girls in 7 Days--1 I am the Cheese--1 The Glass Castle--1 (2 if I had voted, but it didn't really matter, so I didn't) Under the Baseball Moon--1 Discussion of The Giver will begin on Marc ...

... read before.... I'm planning to finish up Sorcery and Cecelia in the next few days, and then (finally!) start re-reading The Giver. I'll probably read Messenger and Gathering Blue too. And in among those light reads, I'm hoping to get through Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics. ...

The Giver

... by John Grisham - feb 11 7. Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb - feb 18 8. Brother Odd by Dean Koontz - feb 21 9. The Giver by Lois Lowry - feb 22 10. Cross by James Patterson - feb 24 March 11. Next by Michael Crichton - mar 1 12. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry - mar 3 1 ...

All this talk of The Giver is really making me want to re-read it and try the related books! I really hope I can find time for them in the not-too-distant future.

sandragon: I think if you expect the punch that The Giver has, you'll be disappointed. As Jonas lives in a futuristic time, the other two books are set in a post-apocalyptic era, where people have reverted to struggling for survival. However, what the three books have in common is the ...

mdbenoit, glad to hear that about Gathering Blue and Messenger. I really enjoyed The Giver that I wanted to read more in that vein, but so many people have been negative about the later two books. I try not to let others scare me away from books that I want to try, but these comments had me ...

I finished Gathering Blue and Messenger by Lois Lowry, companion books to The Giver, as well as Gossamer. While The Giver is by way the superior book the other two books are quite good and complement the first (they're in a totally different setting). Gossamer is simply charming, a feel- ...

>49 dchaikin - First, I would heartily DISrecommend checking out Messenger. The Giver was (in my opinion) really good until right near the end, but Messenger is pretty terrible all the way through. I wouldn't have touched it at all, except that I'd read The Giver and Gathering Blue and I'm ...

>46 fyrefly98, I see your point now. I'm not familiar with Messenger, but it seems to kind of kill the end of The Giver. ****SPOILER ALERT**** I was hoping for death as an option (sorry Jonas) because I was assuming his memories would ripple back through everyone in his hometown.

Other books I'd like to do at some point in the future are The Giver and An Abundance of Katherines (when it comes out in paperback). I keep reading discussions about The Giver recently, and I loved it when I read it a long time ago. I don't know whether it's considered too similar to Uglies ...

I think I'll have to reread The Giver because I don't remember the details very much. I'll get back to you about it in a couple of months :)

I just finished The Giver by Lois Lowry. The discussion in this group made me curious about it. I was amazed by the quality of the writing and the fact that she doesn't talk down to the reader (meaning dumbing down concepts, a bit what happens in the Harry Potter books). I was a bit put off ...

... level for 20 years. Apparently, some parents got all bent out of shape about their 4th graders checking out and reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. A review by several adults was required, and I happen to be one (at times), so I got to provide input. I read it as best I could from the ...

4: fyrefly98 consider rereading the ending of The Giver again. I think it's a very clever ending. ***SPOILER WARNING*** The point of view is from Jonas who is exhuasted, starving and delirious. So, then what exactly is it that looks like a memory he'd received of "Christmas"? It could be ...

Catcher in the Rye, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Giver were the first that popped into mind. They are all among my favorites!

For $7.00 from the Friends of the Library bookstore: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon The Giver by Lois Lowry The Awakening by Kate Chopin Diplomacy of Wolves (The Secret Texts, Book 1) by Holly Lisle In the Hand of the Goddess (Lionness Quartet) by Tamora Pierce Lioness Rampant (Song ...

... ambivalent about most of the Picoult books I've read anyway. I also have to agree with fyrefly98's assessment of The Giver. It was so ambiguous and I'd hoped for a little more closure, one way or another. Cold Mountain on the other hand, was FANTASTIC! It's a tragic story, a ...

Oh, I'm sure there are plenty that I could think of, but the most recent that comes to mind is The Giver, by Lois Lowry. ***SPOILER WARNING*** It's set in a futuristic utopian society, where babies are raised in communal care until they're 1, then by family units, children receive their ...

I agree with sarahelizabthii. The Giver stands alone and is just such a phenomenal work. It is in my top five favorite books. I did enjoy Gathering Blue quite a bit; it just wasn't as fantastic as The Giver. I rated it 4 1/2 stars, with The Giver a 5. Personally I didn't care for The Me ...

The Giver is by far the best of the lot. Of the two sequels, I liked Messenger best, but I'm not sure if that's because it is in fact better than Gathering Blue, or simply because had been SO long since I read the previous books that my memory of Gathering Blue was hazy. IMO, The Giver ...

... $2 each, and remaindered, not used! (I think I'm starting to go crazy.) I've also been meaning to read the sequels to The Giver, though. They weren't out yet when I first read the book. And it should be a good thing when you find out that there are two sequels to a book you love! ...

sarahelizabethii, I just finished The Giver by Lois Lowry and loved it so much I bought a copy for my niece. It's my first Lowry book. I was going to curtail my book buying for a few weeks but now I'm thinking about getting the next two in the same world, Gathering Blue and Messenger. Have ...

... I just can't get into science fiction. I do read some fantasy, particularly young adult dystopias/utopias such as The Giver. I also like Harry Potter and Twilight, which I consider to be the fantasy realm.

... by Lois Lowry. So far it's okay, and it's nice to have some explanation as to what the hell happened at the end of The Giver, but I have a feeling that I'm going to be disappointed by the end... again. I'm also reading Reading Lolita in Tehran, which is really interesting, but kind ...

... just so that I can feel like I'm making progress (and have some justification for buying more). Be warned, though, I think The Giver has at least one sequel/companion. I also keep wanting to read group discussion books even though I have no time to read the books I already have. Discussions ...

I love The Giver, or at least I did when I read it more than 10 years ago. One of these days I'll get around to reading it again. But I also liked I Am the Messenger, and it's in keeping with your discussion group theme :) I'd also like to know what you thought of American Gods - it's so ...

... but I'm willing to try this as it's short and seemed right for the time of year. After that, I haven't decided between The Giver by Lois Lowry or I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak.

... harrowing. But who knows! Tunarubber: I entirely agree! A friend of mine, out of the blue, burst out that she had read The Giver and loved it a few weeks ago. I also lent my best friend Twilight and she stayed up til 3am reading it that very night. One of my sister-in-law's favourite ...

... also suggest her book The Handmaid's Tale, which is arguably more dystopic than apocalyptic. Similar in some ways to The Giver by Lois Lowry - the repressed society, specific people performing specific tasks, the dangers of non-conformity - but for an older audience.

I'm on a bit of a YA kick at the moment... listening to The Giver by Lois Lowry and reading Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce. Actually, change that to "anxiously trying to get through Lady Knight so I can dive into The Prestige". morphidae - I've heard about Color: A Natural History of the ...

... Anderson's Feed will open up discussion on marketing and technology. If he's closer to the 6th grade side go with The Giver. Historical fiction was (and still is) a big component of middle school. Johnny Tremain and My Brother Sam Is Dead are old standbys, but there are many ...

... n Power by Linda Hogan The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera and The Giver by Lois Lowry. In retrospect, many of those have female protagonists and might not be as interesting to your son...but very multi-cultural, if you're into that. ...

The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick The Giver by Louis Lowry And I'll second City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau I haven't read it, but House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer is also supposed to be good.

Probably The Giver. It just gets better and better each time I read it.

... another "must-have" on my shelf, which is often found among young adult books, but is one of the best ones I've read: The Giver by Lois Lowry. In that work, the seeming utopia is kept afloat by lies, which the "correctly" socialized children accept in order to maintain the "common ...

... dson Just started Cynthia Rylant's Missing May, and am looking forward to Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes and The Giver by Lois Lowry.

You might want to read Lois Lowry's The Giver if you haven't already.