Before the Hunger Games, before Divergent, before young adult dystopia became the next big thing, Lois Lowry published "The Giver." It's the story of a seemingly utopian society where there is no ...

Lois Lowry was writing dystopian young-adult books before dystopian young-adult books were all the rage. Like, pre-"Hunger Games." "The Giver," Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning 1993 novel, is brief, ...

When “The Giver” was first released in the mid-90’s it was a runaway success. In the nearly 30 years since its release, it has been seen in the hands of children around the world. While a dystopian ...

Before “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” series zoomed off bookshelves and onto movie screens, where they became blockbuster franchises, there was a quieter dystopian novel that entranced millions of ...

Following in a tradition of deftly wrought dystopian societies like that in A Wrinkle in Time, or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, The Giver also sets the stage for the introduction of Panem, the ...

In her new book, The Windeby Puzzle, two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry combines both narrative history and fiction to imagine the life of an adolescent child from the first century whose remains ...

Like a lot of kids, the first time I read The Giver by Lois Lowry was right on cusp of adolescence, during that murky summer between 5th and 6th grade when you suddenly became responsible for some of ...

During a panel moderated by The Washington Post’s film critic Anne Hornaday — Great Books to Great Movies on Saturday, Aug. 30 at 8 p.m. during the National Book Festival — authors E.L. Doctorow, ...

Lois Lowry's The Giver, the mother of all dystopian young-adult fiction titles, is rising on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list in anticipation of the movie adaptation, opening Aug. 15. It's No. 26.

Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Lois Lowry's dystopian novel stars Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift and Odeya Rush By Ashley Lee The Giver, ...