G is for The Giver by Lois Lowry

I'm one of more than a thousand bloggers taking part in the A-Z Blogging challenge this year. The goal is to blog everyday in April - except Sundays. You don't need a theme...but I've got one.

It's called watchYAreading. Each day, I'll be blogging about a young adult book I have read - and loved (or at least really liked). 

The Giver is an award-winning YA novel - with good reason. I loved it as a kid, but also as much when I re-read it just a few years ago.

If you haven't read it, here's the official blurb: 

In a desensitized, painless world, a boy turning the milestone age of 12 is reluctantly chosen as the next Receiver, a job that involves absorbing prior memories of the society from the historian known as the Giver.

So great! Often studied in elementary school, The Giver is a classic - and perhaps one of the first books about a dystopian future. 


Did you know there's also a movie in the works? Now that's something to get excited about. 

Did I miss the mark on this "G" title? Tell me which novel you'd have chosen in the comments section. At the end of the month I'll choose three readers to win a copy of SPIRITED, an anthology of haunting YA fiction.

Now, go check out the rest of the blogs in the A-Z Challenge, including my Dawn Ius site where I blog about songs and artists who have inspired me, and at the Most-Wanted Monsters blog where the awesome Judith Graves and I are waxing poetic about 26 creeptastic beasties.

- Dawn