MessengerThe third book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning The Giver. Trouble is brewing in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on welcoming strangers, Village will soon be cut off to all outsiders. As one of the few able to traverse the forbidding Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Village’s closing and try to convince Seer’s daughter Kira to return with him before it’s too late. But Forest is now hostile to Matty as well. Now he must risk everything to fight his way through it, armed only with an emerging power he cannot yet explain or understand. "Told in simple, evocative prose, this companion to The Giver and Gathering Blue can stand on its own as a powerful tale of great beauty." —Kirkus (starred review) Messenger is the masterful third novel in Lois Lowry’s Giver Quartet, which includes The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Son. |
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... Matty's concoctions and tried to teach him , but Matty was impatient and didn't care about the subtlety of herbs ... told Matty , whose face had flushed pink with embarrassment . " You could trade for a kiss , " the blind man sug- gested ...
... Matty looked . The butter was bubbling slightly and golden brown . " Yes . " " Add the onion , then . Stir it so it doesn't burn . " Matty obeyed . " Now smell that , " the blind man said . Matty sniffed . The gently sautéing onion ...
... Matty obeyed , tilting into the pan the bowl of broth in which the rabbit had been boiled earlier . The dark liquid ... asked what something . He didn't want to tell . Matty was puzzled by what he had hidden in the clearing . It ...
... Matty asked him . So many people were , and with good reason . " No. It's all an illusion . " Matty frowned . He didn't know what the blind man meant . Was he saying that fear was an illusion ? Or that Forest was ? He glanced over . The ...
Lois Lowry. But this evening Matty was not carrying or collect- ing a message , though he had fibbed and told Ramon so . He headed to a clearing he knew of , a place that lay just beyond a thick stand of bristly pines . Deftly he jumped ...
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Teaching Language and Literature in Elementary Classrooms: A Resource Book ... Marcia S. Popp No preview available - 2005 |
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