Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry is an American author whose books for young readers explore memory, community, moral choice, and difficult moments in history. She received the Newbery Medal for Number the Stars and The Giver and has written across novels, picture books, and series fiction.

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The Giver

1993 · Dystopian

Print — Amazon

2 editions: Print | Audiobook · 2000

1 adaptation: The Giver · Film · 2014

About this work & edition details

Jonas grows up in a community designed to eliminate pain, conflict, and choice. At twelve, he is selected for a rare assignment: receiving the memories that the rest of society has surrendered. Under the guidance of the Giver, Jonas experiences love, beauty, grief, and suffering for the first time. Those memories reveal the cost of his community's apparent order and force him to decide whether safety without freedom is worth preserving. The novel begins a quartet continued by Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

Print · English

Audiobook · Listening Library · 2000-07-05 · English
ISBN 9780553751376

Podcasts & Discussion (8)

Tokyo Alumni PodcastTokyo Alumni Podcast Episode 95 - Lois Lowry - Two-Time Newbery Medal Winner (ASIJ 1948-1950) ↗2026-08-11Good Stories PodcastThe Giver by Lois Lowry ↗2026-04-21Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book ClubAnastasia Krupnik, by Lois Lowry (1979) ↗2023-05-31Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book ClubThe Giver, by Lois Lowry (1993) feat. Micah Clemence ↗2022-12-28Book Vs Movie PodcastThe Giver (2014) Lois Lowry, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep. Brenton Thwaites & Alexander Skarsgard ↗2022-09-25Remember Reading PodcastThe Forbidden Truth: The Giver (ft. Lois Lowry, Karina Yan Glaser, & Anne Ursu) ↗2022-04-20The NewberyTart PodcastLois Lowry Interview ↗2018-12-06Novel Conversations"The Giver" by Lois Lowry ↗2016-08-04

News & Coverage (1)

title interviewA Conversation with Lois Lowry About The Giver ↗penguinrandomhouse.com

Screen & Stage

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Dystopian