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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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Healers, Curadores, Utopias, Community life, Juvenile fiction, Vida en comunidad, Ciencia-ficción, Science fiction, Ficción juvenil, Healing, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Utopias, fiction, Community life, fiction, Health, fiction, Villages, fiction, Forests and forestry, fiction, Large type books, New York Times reviewedPeople
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January 13, 2009, Bantam Books for Young Readers
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"Walter Lorraine Books."
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First Sentence
"Matty was impatient to have the supper preparations over and done with."
Work Description
Second installment to Youth classic, "The Giver." Required in numerous 8th/9th grade English classrooms. Introducing the idea of a utopian society to youth for the 1st time. The well known Trilogy also includes a third book, Gathering Blue. Only recently for the 20th Anniversary of "The Giver" author, Lois Lowry has written a 4th book called, "The Son" now available as of Oct 2012. Which makes the series a fourquet and answers the many hanging questions left by the "The Giver" Reading the two, middle books is not entirely necessary as the "The son" is more a sequel to the 1st book, "The Giver."
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