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    The Giver by Lois Lowry

    We were on vacation last week.  We didn’t do much, some college visits for my daughter, but mostly we have been enjoying our ‘staycation’.  The best part about it is sleeping late in our own beds.  My son and I finished The Giver over vacation.  I read it on my own a few years ago and enjoyed it.  And, it is one of the finalists in my son’s Final Four reading class (any books in the brackets that he hasn’t read, he wants to read!).  And, Lois Lowry never disappoints. The Giver is the story of Jonas and his perfect life.  He lives in a community where everything is planned. …