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Title: Horrible, horrible book - NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!
Review: This book is awful. The author, Lois Lowry, is gifted, and what others have written about her writing is true - she is good at conveying degrees of pain and pleasure, astounding at introducing a concept as if the reader has never come across it before (color, music, etc.). The problem is Lowry's agenda, maybe only one an adult could see. The deep dark secret of Jonas' community is euthanasia - unwanted or unfeasible babies and the extremely aged and fragile are injected with death-inducing drugs. This seems to be a veiled attempt to poison the impressionable reader against abortion and the right-to-die, by playing on his/her emotions - Jonas is so stunned by what he sees his "father" do to a baby that he refuses to go home, and runs away from the community. (...)
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