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Courtland, Mary Claire, Mary Ellen French, Sandra Owston, and Virginia Stead. "Literary Text, the Reader, and the Power of Shared Response." Canadian Journal of Education 23.3 (1998): 329-341.
Gross, Melissa. "The Giver and Shade's Children: Future Views of Child Abandonment and Murder." Children's Literature in Education 30.2 (1999): 103-117.
Hanson, Carter F. "The Utopian Function of Memory in Lois Lowry's The Giver." Extrapolation 50.1 (2009): 3, 45-60.
Lea, Susan G. "Seeing Beyond Sameness: Using The Giver to Challenge Colorblind Ideology." Children's Literature in Education 37.1 (2006): 51-67.
"Lois Lowry." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 32. Gale Group, 2000. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/servlet/BioRC.
Stewart, Susan Louise. "A Return to Normal: Lois Lowry's The Giver." Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 31.1 (2007): 21-35.
The Giver Essays and Related Content
- The Giver: Major Themes
- The Giver: Questions
- The Giver: Purchase the Novel and Related Material
- Lois Lowry: Biography
- The Giver Summary
- About The Giver
- Character List
- Glossary of Terms
- Major Themes
- Quotes and Analysis
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1-2
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 3-4
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 5-6
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 7-8
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 9-11
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 12-13
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 14-15
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 16-17
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 18-20
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 21-23
- Utopia and Dystopia in Literary and Historical Context
- Related Links on The Giver
- Suggested Essay Questions
- Test Yourself! - Quiz 1
- Test Yourself! - Quiz 2
- Test Yourself! - Quiz 3
- Test Yourself! - Quiz 4
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