The Giver

I don't know how I missed the boat on this book when I was younger... It was first published when I was five, so maybe it was just before my time - when I started reading longer books, I was all about Nancy Drew and only Nancy Drew. I had actually barely heard about The Giver until it was being made into a movie. I didn't make it around to reading the book until after I watched the movie... and that was really only because I really like the movie. I guess I stalled with reading this because it's labeled as a children's book. But it is far from juvenile. It is extremely insightful into human emotions and what makes life meaningful but also has the chance to make it painful. I love the message in this book. It's a heavy children's story, but an important one. I'm dying to move on to the next books in the series.