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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... homeplace , he meas- ured himself against the window . Once he had stood only to its sill , his forehead there , pressing into the wood , but now he was so tall he could see inside without effort . Or , moving back in the high grass ...
... behind him and hoping his friend wouldn't notice it . It was always fun , in a way , to go to Ramon's homeplace , because his family had recently traded for something called a Gaming Machine , a large decorated box with a handle that 7.
... homeplace . Matty knew the paths of Forest as if he had made them . And indeed , some of them were of his making , over the years . The roots had flattened as he made his way here and there , seeking the shortest , safest 8.
... of loss . He set aside his other worries and began to hurry through the evening's last light to the home- place , where the blind man would be waiting and would explain . وو " Did you hear about what happened to Gatherer 11.
... be someone taken . ” Matty had arrived at the homeplace the night before to find the blind man preparing for bed and listening attentively to the low collective moan , clearly a large number of people grieving . " Someone's 12 2 2.
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