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December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man-the man called only the Giver-he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world.

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, 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.

It's a perfect world, where everything looks right but ugly truths lie beneath the surface it is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everyone is provided for. Each family unit is entitled to one female and male child. Each member of the community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the committee of elders, and they never make a mistake. Jonas, a sensitive twelve-year-old boy, had never thought there was anything wrong with his community, until one day. From the moment jonas is selected as the receiver of memory at the ceremony, his life is never the same. Jonas discovers that the community is not as perfect as it seems. Although they appear to have everything, they are missing something of great importance. It is up to jonas, with the help of the giver, to find what long ago had been lost and so jonas embarks on an adventure to save the world as he knows it.