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The Giver is a book about a boy named Jonas. He lives in a community where they don't have color, snow, and animals like bears, elephants, and Hippos. Jonas is almost twelve, and soon he will be told his new career at a huge ceremony. On the day of Jonas's ceremony, he is skipped, and later told  his job is the reciever of Memories. On Jonas's first day of training, he learns secrets about his community that no one else knows. Secrets that could make Jonas into a powerful youth, or force him to  run away from the community forever...