TY - BOOK AU - Lowry, Lois TI - The Giver SN - 978-0-547-99566-3 U1 - 813 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - SCIENCE FICTION N2 - The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community ER -