List $28.00

Ages 10-up

Written by Lois Lowry - Performed by Ron Rifkin - Unabridged Fiction - 4 COMPACT DISCS - 4 hours, 48 minutes

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (April 1995)

An unabridged recording of the

Newbery Medal Winner

Audie Award Nominee for Best Children's Production

Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community. "Wrought with admirable skill -- the emptiness and menace underlying this Utopia emerge step by inexorable step: a richly provocative novel." --Kirkus Reviews

Publisher's Weekly Review:
Winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal, this thought-provoking novel centers on a 12-year-old boy's gradual disillusionment with an outwardly utopian futuristic society; in a starred review, PW said, "Lowry is once again in top form... unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers.''