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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... thing that scared him . Waiting just made it worse . Matty was no longer a boy , but not yet a man . Sometimes , standing outside the homeplace , he meas- ured himself against the window . Once he had stood only to its sill , his ...
... thing . But now - you're right , Matty . It's not to be laughed at anymore . " " My friend Ramon went to the last Trade Mart , with his parents . But he won't talk about it . " " We won't then , either . Is the butter 2.
... things , and there's no need . " " I want to go out before night comes . I have some- thing to check . I need to eat supper and get out there to the clearing before it's dark . " The blind man laughed . He picked up the rabbit parts ...
... things . But he always had ; he had grown up lying , and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong . To Matty , it was sometimes a way of making things easier , more comfortable ...
... things with- out landmarks , in the same way that he could feel weather and was able to predict rain long before the clouds came or there was a shift in wind . Matty sim- ply knew . Others from Village rarely ventured into Forest . It ...
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