Children’s / young-adult mystery: The Giver by Lois Lowry
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Vocal Characteristics
Language
EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (Canadian-General)Transcript
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it was almost december and jonas was beginning to be frightened. no wrong word. jonas thought frightened meant that deep sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice. he had seen it both times squinting toward the sky. he had seen the sleek jet almost a blur at its high speed go past and a second later heard the blast sound that followed. then one more time, a moment later from the opposite direction, the same plane at first, he'd only been fascinated. he had never seen aircraft so close for it was against the rules for pilots to fly over the community. occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bicycles to the river bank and watched, intrigued the unloading and then the take off to the west, always away from the community. but the aircraft a year ago had been different. it was not a squat fat bellied cargo plane but a needle nosed single plot jet