Lois Lowry
1) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
3) Messenger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
5) Son
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
6) The Giver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Newbery medal winner, 1994. 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 community in which he lives.
7) Gossamer
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream-giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
10) Giver, The
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
180 p. cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Messenger
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
169 p.
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.