The Giver by Lois Lowry

 Jonas lives in a community where life is simple. The government gives you your soulmate, your children, and assigns you a job. Everyone's the same, except Jonas. When Jonas receives his job, he is assigned a special job. He is assigned to be the receiver of memory which allows him to break rules and request anything and he will receive it. When Jonas starts his training for his job, he receives his training from the old receiver now named the Giver. Jonas learns that as the receiver of memory he will have to endure the pain of keeping the memory of how life was before. The book gets very interesting when he learns about how life used to be, as he realizes he doesn’t have the freedom his ancestors had. He and the Giver then try to change his community’s life.

I give this book a 4.5 stars out of 5 because the story is interesting but the book ends in a cliffhanger. One interesting thing was when Jonas experiences seeing color. This is interesting because before he became the receiver, his world is only black and white. All of his shirts look the same, an orange is the same color as an apple, and everyone’s skin and hair is the same color. 

This book is the first in the series. The other books are Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. The Giver has won the Newbery Award and is written by Lois Lowry.--Reviewed by Kashvi R.