The Giver
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1623
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: science fiction, newbery medal, newbery, memory [X], coming of age, utopian fiction, bildungsromans, dystopias, boys, control (psychology), social control, ethics, audiobooks, newbery honor book, children's audiobooks, audiobooks, chinese language, dystopias, science fiction, bildungsromans, control, dystopian comics, science fiction comics, graphic novels, large type books, electronic books, electronic books, dystopian fiction [X], science fiction comic books, strips, etc, comics adaptations
El Dador
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: spanish language materials, newbery medal books, science fiction, spanish language, freedom, conformity, individuality, memory [X], science fiction, liberty, dystopian fiction [X]
The Book Of M
In a future where people's shadows have started inexplicably disappearing and those same people develop a strange new magic power--at the cost of losing all their past memories--husband and wife Ory and Max have escaped the Forgetting and live relatively normally in an abandoned hotel lost in the Virginia woods.
FIC
year:
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: shades and shadows, memory [X], married people, forgetfulness, dystopias, suspense fiction, dystopian fiction [X], epidemics, dystopian fiction, thrillers (fiction)
Freedom Trials
Evelyn Summers is imprisoned for a crime that was wiped from her memory.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Contagion
A deadly, mysterious epidemic is sweeping the country, and young kidnap victim Callie is one of the few who survived infection, only to be sacrificed by her captors at a secret lab working with antimatter; her older brother Kai is desperate to find out what happened to her--his best hope lies with Shay, the girl who last saw Callie alive, and together they will seek answers, even if it means evading soldiers and crossing the quarantine zone.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: epidemics, missing persons, memory [X], identity (psychology), siblings, great britain, science fiction, dystopian fiction [X]
The Memory Police
"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Memory Index
"In a reimagined 1987, mankind's ability to remember has deteriorated.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: memory [X], boarding schools, science fiction, 1980s fiction, mystery, thriller, dystopian fiction [X], science fiction
The Dividing Sky
"In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dystopias, teenagers, memory [X], brain, african americans, science fiction, dystopian fiction [X]
[khranytel']
"Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: memory [X], social control, ethics, ukrainian language, dystopian fiction [X], science fiction