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Full Record Check this checkbox to mark or unmark the current record AUTHOR Lowry, Lois, 1937-. TITLE The giver / by Lois Lowry. EDITION 25th anniversary ed. IMPRINT Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. DESCRIPTION 246 p. ; 22 cm. SUMMARY Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade. AWARD Newbery Medal, 1994 ; Margaret Edwards Award, 2007. SUBJECT Dystopias -- Fiction . SUBJECT Individuality -- Fiction . SUBJECT Liberty -- Fiction . SUBJECT Memory -- Fiction . SUBJECT Social control -- Fiction . SUBJECT Social prediction -- Fiction . SUBJECT Science fiction. DISCIPLINE English Language. OTHER TITLE Chinese title: 記憶傳承人. ISBN 9781328471222 (hbk.). Location Call Number Status English Book Collection F LOW Available 在館