The Giver Quartet

The Giver Quartet
By Lois Lowry
Read in 6th Grade
The series starts off in the "community" with Jonas. It's a boring, regulated, colorless place, with its citizens unaware of the outside world. But Jonas is special. He can "see beyond", and is selected to hold all the memories of the past for the rest of the community. But as he receives those painful memories and sees past the veil of sameness in his village, he becomes determined to change things. The books progress through 2 others with special powers, until they all meet in the final showdown with an evil force known as the Trademaster in Son.
I thought the books presented the problems with a dictatorship-like society very well. They were also very heartwarming, showing a mother's determination to reunite with her child.