The giver /
by Lois Lowry ; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.
- Gift ed.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011.
- viii, 197 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes Newberry acceptance speech. Companion book to: Gathering blue, Messenger, and Son.
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.