- Healers, Curadores, Utopias, Community life
Second installment to Youth classic, "The Giver." Required in numerous 8th/9th grade English classrooms. Introducing the idea of a utopian society to youth for the 1st time. The well known Trilogy also includes a third book, Gathering Blue.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Lois Lowry, David Morse, Fikret Topalli
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 175
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Thorndike Press, Random House Children's Books
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- Polish, Chinese, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788424180096
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“Matty was impatient to have the supper preparations over and done with.”
Lois Ann Lowry (/ˈlaʊəri/;[2] née Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry
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