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The Giver The Giver
Lowry, Lois
AR Quiz No. 8568 EN

While training to be the Receiver of Memory, Jonas experiences joy and sadness for the first time. He becomes convinced his society has given up too much, and he can no longer accept the sameness. Book #1

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  Reading Practice, Recorded Voice, Literacy Skills, Vocabulary Practice


ATOS Book Level: 5.7
Interest Level: Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
AR Points: 7.0
Word Count: 43617
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
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Series: Giver Quartet;

Publisher LCCN ISBN Year Published Page Count
Houghton Mifflin 92015034 978-0-395-64566-6 1993 180
Bantam Books   978-0-553-57133-2 1999 192
Bantam Doubleday Dell   978-0-440-90079-5 1994 192
Collins Publishers   978-0-00-714142-5 2003 224
Delacorte Press   978-0-385-73255-0 2006 192
Dell   978-0-614-22196-1 1994 192
FollettBound   978-0-329-05067-2 1993 180
FollettBound   978-0-329-37925-4 1999 192
FollettBound   978-0-329-69131-8 2002 208
FollettBound   978-1-4131-4501-4 1999 192
FollettBound   978-1-4156-5110-0 2006 192
FollettBound   978-1-5379-3371-9 2014 240
Houghton Mifflin   978-0-547-42477-4 2011 208
Houghton Mifflin   978-0-547-99566-3 2012 240
Houghton Mifflin   978-0-440-21907-1 1993 180
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt   978-1-328-47122-2 2018 246
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt   978-0-544-33626-1 2014 180
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt   978-0-544-34068-8 2014 240
Laurel Leaf   978-0-440-22727-4 1997 192
Laurel Leaf   978-0-440-82440-4 1994 192
Laurel Leaf   978-0-440-23768-6 2002 208
Paw Prints   978-1-4352-0750-9 2007 192
Perfection Learning Corporation   978-0-7807-4102-7 2002 180
Perma-Bound Books   978-0-605-83366-1 2014 180
Perma-Bound Books   978-0-8000-0763-8 2002 208
Tandem Library Books   978-0-613-72266-7 2002 208
Thorndike Press   978-0-7862-0055-9 1993 226
Thorndike Press   978-0-7862-7153-5 2004 226
Thorndike Press   978-0-7862-7154-2 1993 226
Turtleback Books   978-0-606-06990-8 1994 180
Turtleback Books   978-0-606-28608-4 2003 180
Turtleback Books   978-1-4176-2324-2 1999 180
Turtleback Books   978-0-7857-3498-7 1994 180
Yearling   978-0-440-22892-9 1999 208