The giver /
by Lois Lowry.
- Boston : Clarion Books, 1993.
- 223 pages : 21 cm
- Giver quartet .
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1993"--Title page verso. Includes the author's Newbery acceptance speech, and an afterword called "Ever After."
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.