The Giver

Name: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry

by Lois Lowry

Dystopian society where Receiver of Memory gains dangerous knowledge of human emotion

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Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry is an American author who has won two Newbery Medals, for Number the Stars and The Giver. Her dystopian novel The Giver became a foundational text of young adult literature.

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