"The Giver" by Lois Lowry is the first book in the Giver Quartet Ser., a young adult fiction series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in 2014. This trade paperback edition, measuring 8.2 inches in length, 5.5 inches in width, and 0.7 inches in height, is intended for young adult audiences. With a weight of 7.1 ounces and containing 240 pages, this book explores themes of fantasy and science fiction in the story of a character known as the Giver."