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Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-one
Twenty-two
Twenty-three
Sample Chapter from GATHERING BLUE
Buy the Book
The Giver Quartet
About the Author

Text copyright © 1993 by Lois Lowry
 
All rights reserved. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2000.
 
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.
 
www.hmhco.com
 
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
The giver / by Lois Lowry
p. cm.
Summary: 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.
[1. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.L9673Gi 1993 92-15034
[Fic]—dc20 CIP
AC
 
ISBN: 978-0-547-99566-3 hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-544-33626-1 paperback
 
eISBN 978-0-547-34590-1
v6.1114
 
 
 
 
For all the children
To whom we entrust the future
Introduction
Twenty years? No kidding: twenty years
? It’s hard to believe.
Twenty years ago, I was—well, I was much younger. My parents were still alive. Two of my grandchildren had not yet been born, and another one, now in college, was an infant.
Twenty years ago I didn’t own a cell phone. I didn’t know what quinoa was and I doubt I had ever tasted kale.
There had recently been a war. Now we refer to that one as the First Gulf War, but back then, mercifully, we didn’t know there would be another.
Maybe a lot of us weren’t even thinking about the future then. But I was. And I’m a writer.
 
I wrote The Giver
on a big machine that had recently taken the place of my much-loved typewriter, and after I printed the pages, very noisily, I had to tear them apart, one by one, at the perforated edges. (When I referred to it as my computer, someone more knowledgeable pointed out that my machine was not a computer. It was a dedicated word processor
. “Oh, okay then,” I said, as if I understood the difference.)
As I carefully separated those two hundred or so pages, I glanced again at the words I had typed on them. I could see that I had written a complete book. It ............

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