Publication
New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
Call number
Graphic / Russe
ISBN
9780544157880
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Everyone except Jonas.
In this graphic novel edition of The Giver, witness Jonas's Life Assignment as the Receiver of Memory, watch as he begins to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community, and follow the explosion of color into his world like never before through P. Craig Russell's beautifully haunting art. -- from inside jacket
FY2020 /
In this graphic novel edition of The Giver, witness Jonas's Life Assignment as the Receiver of Memory, watch as he begins to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community, and follow the explosion of color into his world like never before through P. Craig Russell's beautifully haunting art. -- from inside jacket
FY2020 /
Physical description
176 p.; 23 cm
Awards
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (Selection — 2020)
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.
Language
Original language
English
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