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Loading... The Giver: A Newbery Award Winner (Giver Quartet, 1) (original 1993; edition 1993)by Lois Lowry (Author)
Work InformationThe Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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