The Giver, by Louis Lowrey, is a unique book about being different and loving so much that you are willing to make a major sacrifice for their benefit.
The Giver is written in simple modern English and is not a difficult read (I read it in 7th grade). Lowery paints pictures and crafts characters so smoothly that you don't realize your learning so much about the character and their community until you finish. Set in a different world, with a different way of living, her smoothness is a great feat. In her world the people are excluded from feelings and pain, and they are forced to be the same through "Sameness".
In The Giver, the main character Jonas is a young boy selected for a position of great honor, or that's what everyone keeps telling him, but no one seems to know what the Receiver does. Jonas' job comes with rules that he would have never have thought possible; suddenly he was able to lie and was exempt from certain activities that EVERYONE had to participate in. Jonas' secretes and exemptions separate him from his family and friends.
Then Jonas is faced with a choice; does he stay in his comfortable home or does he give it up so his community can have the chance to feel real emotions and live their lives?
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