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The Giver
The book that I chose for my book report is The Giver and it took me three days to finish. The author of this book is Lois Lowry and it was published by Houghton Mifflin Co. and it was published in 1993. This book was great from start to finish and i never wanted to put it down. I have so many things to talk about in this report.
At the start of the book we meet an eleven year old boy named Jonas. He lives in a society where everyone is the same, in a world void of war, sadness, and even happiness. In this society people have no choice over their decisions at all. When children are born they are kept in the nurturing center for the first year of their life then they are assigned to two parents who also applied to be with each other.

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