The+Giver

=Suggested Reading=

If you liked //The Giver// why don’t you try the following titles?
//Gathering Blue// by Lois Lowry Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

//The Messenger// by Lois Lowry Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

//Fahrenheit 451// by Ray Bradbury Guy Montag unquestioningly does his job of burning books until a seventeen-year-old girl tells him of a past in which people were not afraid.

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card An outstanding tale of the child-hero Ender Wiggin, who must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.

//The Supernaturalist// by Eoin Colfer In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.

//The City of// Ember by Jeanne DuPrau In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

//Grease Monkey// by Tim Eldred Robin Plotnik has been assigned to Fist of Earth, a defense station high above Earth, keeping watch against further attacks by the interstellar Horde. Robin’s a spacecraft mechanic-in-training, apprenticed to Chief “Mac” Gimbensky, a cranky but basically benign gorilla with issues of his own.

//The House of the Scorpions// by Nancy Farmer In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

//Among the Hidden by// Margaret Peterson Haddix In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. //Among the Imposters// //Among the Betrayed// //Among the Barrons// //Among the Free//

//A Wrinkle in Time// by Madeline L’Engle Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

//The Cure// by Sonia Levitin In a chilling tale of a futuristic society colliding with the past, the will of one boy must change the world. Can his belief in the goodness of human beings be enough to help him make that change?.

//Shade’s Children// by Garth Nix In a savage postnuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor.

//Z for Zachariah// by Robert C. O’Brien Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.

//The Last Book in the Universe// by W.R. Philbrick After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

//The Duplicate// by Will Sleator Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicated himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.

//The Uglies// by Scott Westerfeld Transformation into a super beauty on her sixteenth birthday and reuniting with her friend Peris will only happen if Tally Youngblood's friend Shay also agrees to the operation. //The Pretties// //The Specials//