Amazon.com: The Giver Movie Tie-in Edition: A Newbery Award Winner―A Boy Discovers Dark Secrets in an Ideal World (Giver Quartet, 1): 9780544340688: Lowry, Lois: Books "A powerful and provocative novel." - New York Times "Wrought with admirable skill—the emptiness and menace underlying this Utopia emerge step by inexorable step: a richly provocative novel." - Kirkus Reviews (starred.. The Giver Quartet is a series of four books about a dystopian world by American author Lois Lowry, which consists of The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). [1][2] The first book won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 50 million copies. [3][4] The story takes place at an unknown point of time within the future. Each book has a different protagonist.
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment.. The Giver is a 1993 young adult dystopian novel written by American author Lois Lowry, and it is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses.