This is another toughy for me. I have read so many different kinds of books, it is extremely difficult to define which is my favorite. Can't I just say I love them all???
I am really torn between two...The Giver and Follow the River....so I am just going to say that they are both my favorites!
"It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened."Thus opens this haunting novel in which a boy inhabits a seemingly ideal world: a world without conflict, poverty, unemployment, divorce, injustice, or inequality. It is a time in which family values are paramount, teenage rebellion is unheard of, and even good manners are a way of life.
December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve year old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man -the man called only the Giver -he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world.
Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative story of a boy who experiences something incredible and undertakes something impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs.
UPDATE***In my search to get the book cover picture and details for The Giver, I have found that this will be a movie in 2011. I read this one back in college, so I am thrilled to hear that it is going to be a movie. The book was fabulous, I hope the movie does it justice.
Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her people.
3 comments:
Really?? Loved finding this out about you, would of never picked these two!
I LOVE both of those also!!! Good choice!
Follow the river sounds like a good one. Can't wait to check it out!
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