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Prizewinning Novel Challenged: The Giver is Important Reading

Filed under: Articles, Current Events — Val at 8:19 pm on Sunday, November 25, 2007
The Giver, by Lois Lowry Popping pills? Suicide? Lethal injections? These are reasons given [CC Times, 11/6/2007, A1] for two mothers’ request for removal of Lois Lowry’s prizewinning novel The Giver from all Mount Diablo Schools reading lists and libraries. Not so fast. Before we “burn” this book, readers should take these out-of-context conclusions, and place the pieces right back in context where they belong, inside the whole story. (Read on …)