Lois Lowry
1) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
GN 760L
Language
English
Description
Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth.
2) Son
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
4) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
5) El dador
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La comunidad donde vive Jonas es idílica. Es un mundo sin conflicto, sin desigualdad, sin desempleo, sin dolor...pero tanbién sin elección. A los ciudadanos se les asigna una pareja y un trabajo. Nadie hace preguntas. Todo el mundo obedece. Excepto Jonas. Al cumplir doce años, es seleccionado para desempeñar un trabajo muy especial, y comienza a recibir lecciones de un misterioso anciano conocido como el Dador. Poco a poco, Jonas aprenderá que...
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This Book Club in a Box is a book discussion kit which circulates for six weeks and contains everything you need to host your own book club.
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.