TY - BOOK AU - Lowry,Lois TI - The giver T2 - Giver quartet SN - 9781328471222 U1 - PZ7.L9673 G PY - 1993/// CY - Boston : PB - Clarion Books, KW - Individuality KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Liberty KW - Social control KW - Social prediction KW - Memory KW - Dystopias KW - Science fiction KW - Fiction KW - cct KW - fast KW - sears KW - Young adult fiction KW - Young adult works KW - Juvenile works KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N1 - "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." N2 - 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 ER -