The Giver: The first novel in the classic science-fiction fantasy adventure series for kids (The Giver Quartet) - Softcover

Lowry, Lois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007578490 ISBN 13: 9780007578498

Verlag: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

In a perfect world, Jonas begins to see the flaws? THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everything needed is provided. And at twelve years old, each member of the community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders. Twelve-year old Jonas has never thought there was anything wrong with his world. But from the mo

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Críticas:

"The Giver, a powerful and provocative novel, is sure to keep older children reading and thinking." New York Times

“Lowry is once again in top form – raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers."
Publishers Weekly

Biografía del autor:

Lois Lowry, author of over twenty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal (for The Giver and Number the Stars), was born on 20 March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. Now divorced, she lives in West Cambridge with her dog, Bandit, and spends weekends in her nineteenth-century farmhouse in New Hampshire.

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• Verlag: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007578490
• ISBN 13: 9780007578498
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240