THE GIVER
THE GIVER بقلم لويس لوري ... 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.
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لويس لوري
Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida