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3054 reviews
Lois Lowry

Demco Media, 1994

dark emotional and political issues bravely dealt with for children
The Giver by Lois Lowry a children's SF for 8-12 year olds written in 1993 is part of a loose set trilogy set in the same imagined world but not necessarily with the same characters. It deals with a world where your life is one of conformity and happiness. The short novel honestly faces why a society such as this would arise with its benefits and essential failure explored. The core of that ...

Things Fall Apart

521 reviews
Chinua Achebe

Demco Media, 1994

Thought Provoking - Tragic; yet Thoughtful
This book was required reading material in a sophomore-level college literature course that I had to get the Dean's approval to take because of my Freshman status. It was thought provoking; yet didn't drive me to the means to the end. I understood the socio-economic breakdown as well as the fact that there was a factor of pride versus the inevitable versus the fact that no family clan that had ...