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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The entire Giver series culminates with the grand opening of the entire Giver playground in celebration of Canada 150! The Giver team of kids from all over Canada tell us about the experience of designing and building this incredible park and what their hopes are for the future. Happy Birthday Canada!
5) The giver
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Series
Language
English
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Dystopian (Adult/YA)
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Dystopian (Adult/YA)
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TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...
7) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet graphic novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Placed on countless reading lists, translated into more than forty languages, and made into a feature film, The Giver is the first book in The Giver Quartet that also includes Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. In this new graphic novel edition, readers experience the haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas and his seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment, through the brilliant art of P. Craig Russel that truly brings The...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Punky, a little girl who loves hugs and dancing, is a child with downsyndrome who ives in the moment. She has a helpful nature and when she sees something is wrong or someone has a problem, she does what she can to fix it. In this animated episode, Punky finds a brooch on the sidewalk and wants togive it back tothe owner.
10) The Giver
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
11) El dador
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Español
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When the family picnic basket gets slashed, Dana and her family head to Dino Court, where Judge Mom, Bailiff Dad, Lawyer Dana and Lawyer Saara try "The Case of the Picnic Basket Slasher", testing the guilt of three dino suspects: a Compsognathus, a Therizinosaurus and a Dromaeosaurus.
16) Messenger
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
17) Son
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
18) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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.
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