The Giver by Lois Lowery
Some students at the Werner Heisenberg Gymnasium have put together some interesting things about the book on their web site. Look around at the pictures and other things on this site; some of it is pretty cool (although not all of the links seem to work).
  • At Reading Matters is a look at The Giver, along with some other novels you might want to read.
  • Some good questions for thinking about the book are at Lisa J. Parker's Young Adult Literature site.
  • I wish I'd thought of this list of links about memory, color, language, and other themes related to The Giver, at Planet Book Club.
  • The Giver is going to be a movie? Yes...probably. They're trying. Keep on top of developments at Hollywood.com.
  • Howdja like to read and rate a buncha stuff other kids have written about The Giver for themselves and for school? A mixed bag of quality is at the FanFiction.net page
  • One reader from Sweden gives some short, personal thoughts about the book at this site.
  • The Random House publishers teacher's guide to The Giver also has some good things for students in it.
  • These SparkNotes over The Giver are probably more reading than a lazy student would want to do, but the study questions might get you thinking.
  • Give Jonas a new home? That's the point of this Web Quest you can try for fun. It's similar to the New World assignment you got in class.
  • A starting place for Internet resources on The Giver is at Connecting Students. (Warning: This link was dead the last time I checked.)
    • There is a lot of information about Lois Lowry on the Web:
    "My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections...The Giver - and Gathering Blue, more recently published...speak to the same concern: the vital need of people to be aware of their interdependence, not only with each other, but with the world and its environment...I try, through writing, to convey my passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another."
    --From the autobiography at LoisLowry.com.
    • Lois Lowry has recently put up her own web page, at--of course--LoisLowry.com. The page of speeches (although she says it's mostly for teachers and librarians) offers some good thoughts. She also answers some Frequently Asked Questions about herself and her books. The Biography page has clickable words that lead to some nice pictures from her photo album. Another nice thing about the site is that Lois Lowry did the illustrations.
    • Scholastic's Lois Lowry page is a good one. Scholastic has also published the text of their chat session with Lois Lowry, where students asked her questions. [Note: Scholastic has done some re-designing, and there seems to be some problem with these links lately.]
    • The Children's Literature Newsletter has another short Lois Lowry page.
    • Some more thoughts from Lois Lowry herself about The Giver.
    • Another Lois Lowry page, from the Library Sciences people at Rutgers University, tells some further tidbits about her.
    • The Internet Public Library, as usual, has a related page for you.
    • In a recent interview with AOL teenreads.com, Lois Lowry talks about her new book, which she calls a "companion novel" to The Giver. It's not exactly a sequel, but she has planned it as the second book in a trilogy of books.
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