Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry's Newbery-winning novel drops a boy into a community that has traded color, pain, and choice for perfect order, then hands him the one job that lets him see what was given up. It's the rare dystopia built for readers just old enough to notice the wiring under the floorboards.

Lois Lowry follows The Giver with Gathering Blue, a slower, harder dystopia about an orphaned, disabled girl whose gift for weaving thread into story might be the only thing keeping her alive in a village that discards anyone it sees as broken.