01164cam a2200277 i 4500 422362574 TxAuBib 20200101120000.0 940908s1993||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780544340633 0544340639 (OCoLC)31068048 TxAuBib rda Lowry, Lois. The Giver / Lois Lowry. ©1993. New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co, 1993. 171 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The 1994 Newbery Medal winner, this book has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his Life Assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. 20200101. Science fiction. Fiction.