LCE 6th grade Electronic Book Review Form

LCE 6th grade Electronic Book Review
1. Student Reviewer’s Name: Bryce C.
2. Date of review of book: February 29, 2008
3. Complete Book Title: The Giver
4. Author of Book: Lois Lowly
5. Year the book was published: 1993
6. Genre: science fiction
7. Student rating of the book (1 the highest, 5 the lowest): 1

8. Main conflict in the book:
Jonas is aware that he will be chosen to hold the memories of life, good and bad. He lives is a world where the people have no freedom and no choices. He is given a job of being a Receiver, which means that he will hold, keep, and give memories. Even though he knows that it will be an exciting job, he does not know if he wants to carry it out because he is afraid, and he struggles with this conflict.

9. Setting of the book: (place and time): The setting happens sometime in the future

10. Main Characters and part they play in the book:
(1) Jonas is a 12 year old boy who has a job to carry on the challenge of receiving memories and keeping them.
(2) The Giver is an old man who has the job to carry on the responsibility of feeding all of the information and memories to Jonas.

11. Are the characters believable and interesting?
Yes. Jonas is believable and interesting because he was able to take on such a big job. The Giver was believable and interesting because he was wise and he knew he had to do a good job with Jonas before he died.

12. One excellent direct quotation from the book: (include who said it, page number, and use
quotation marks!)
”Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived laid behind him sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.” Narrator. Page 165

13. Good reasons to read the book:
One good reason to read the book is that it makes you think about if you had no rights or freedoms, and everything was decided for you including your name, your parents, and what you are going to do when you grow up. Another reason to read the book is that it always is interesting. There are not really any points in the book where you get bored. It makes you want to keep reading and find out what is going to happen next because it is suspenseful.

14. Any reasons not to read the book?
I cannot think of any reason not to read the book.

Did you like this book or not? And why….
I liked the book because it is full of suspense and I like science fiction.

1. Student Reviewer's Name: Chloe F.
2. Date of review of book: February 23, 2008
3. Complete Book Title: The Giver
4. Author of Book: Lois Lowry
5. Year the book was published: 1993
6. Genre: Science Fiction
7. Student rating of the book (1 the highest, 5 the lowest): 1

8. Main conflict in the book:
A boy, living in the future, named Jonas, is chosen to be the receiver, the most important job in his community. The receiver holds memories from the past; how to feel, touch and see like in the past or like a modern human.

9. Setting of the book: (place and time)
The setting of the book is in the future.

10. Main Characters and part they play in the book:
(1) Jonas; Jonas is chosen to become the new receiver.
(2) The Giver; The Giver transfers memories to Jonas.

11. Are the characters believable and interesting?
Yes, the characters are believable and interesting, because they are just like ordinary people but they are in the future and they can't feel, touch, and see like us.

12. One excellent direct quotation from the book: (include who said it, page number, and use quotation marks!)
"The runners sliced through the snow and the wind whipped at his face as they sped in a straight line through an incision that seemed to lead to the final destination, the place that he had always felt was waiting, the Elsewhere that held their future and their past." (Jonas, page 179)

13. Good reasons to read the book:
This is a good book for anyone if you look forward to the future and if you would like to see what someone's perspective of the future.

14. Any reasons not to read the book?
You should not read this book because it is very boring in the beginning.

Did you like this book or not? And why….
I liked this book, because I have always wanted to now what the future would be like.

1. Student Reviewer’s Name: Diana J
2. Date of review of book: 3/26/06
3. Complete Book Title: The Giver
4. Author of Book: Louis Lowry
5. Year the book was published: 1993
6. Genre: Science Fiction
7. Student rating of the book (1 the highest, 5 the lowest): 1

8. Main conflict in the book: A boy living in the future is assigned the most important job in the community. The Giver helps him to feel, touch and see like a modern person.

9. Setting of the book (place and time): in the future

10. Main Characters and part they play in the book:
(1) Jonas: Boy who is selected to become the new receiver.

(2) The Giver: Helps Jonas become a new person.

11. Are the characters believable and interesting? yes

12. One excellent direct quotation from the book:
“ He knew they were shining through the windows of rooms, that they were red, blue and yellow lights that twinkled from trees in places where families created and kept memories, where they celebrated love.” ( Jonas, pg 179)

13. Good reasons to read the book: This book can encourage you to think about the future.

14. Any reasons not to read the book? It can become confusing sometimes.

15. Did you like this book or not? And why….
I liked this book very much because it’s fun to see how Jonas reacted when he learns how people were in the past.