help finding a book please

[kobatheweatherman]

hi everyone, listen there was this book that i remember reading as a child and i enjoyed it greatly although i dont really remember alot from it.. i know it was a pulitzer winner i think, it was a novel that had a gold sticker award thing on the cover and what it was about was a young man growing up in what i think was a planned socialist state, i think, in perhaps east germany? the families were planned by the state, and they gave medication to the children and adults to supress sexual arousal.. unimportant but it is something i remember from the book.. and that they gave the childroom bikes at the end of like a certain year in school and that also the boy in the book had a daughter who wanted to become a birth mother as her profession that her state would decide for them.. the protagonist or narrator/main character of the book wanted to be chosen as an engineer or scientist of some sort.. this is all rambled but this is all i can remember and i would love if someone could make sense of this foolishness and help me find this book, thanks!

[Cuchulainn]

I want to say that you're talking about The Giver. From what I remember of the book it sounds like it. But it didn't win the pulitzer. It did win the Newbery Medal, which is also a gold stick on the cover. The big determination as to if this is the book you're talking about would be when you were a child, since this book was published in 1993.

[neglet]

That plot does sound like "The Giver," which was written by Lois Lowry and won the Newbery Medal, which would explain the gold sticker. It's an excellent, thought-provoking book, and I'm not surprised it sticks in your head.