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The Giver

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Author:
Lowry, Lois
Series:
Giver Quartet
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date:
©2019
Language:
English
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Essex Young Adult Graphic Novel
YA GN LOWRY

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.

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Comics (Graphic works)
Control (Psychology)
Control (Psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Ethics
Ethics -- Comic books, strips, etc
Memory
Memory -- Comic books, strips, etc
Science fiction
Science fiction -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
Social control
Social control -- Comic books, strips, etc

More Details

Contributors:
Russell, P. Craig,adapter,illustrator
Showman, Galen,illustrator
Lowry, Lois.Giver
Hampton, Scott,illustrator
ISBN:
9780544157880
Accelerated Reader:
MG
Level 4.2, 3 Points
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 500L

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Last Grouping Update2025-10-04 05:21:55AM
Last Indexed2025-10-13 01:54:42AM

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