Messenger

by Lois Lowry (Author)

Messenger
Reading Level: 8th − 9th Grade
Series: Giver Quartet
Trouble is brewing in Village. Once a utopian community that welcomed 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, too, and he must risk everything to fight his way through it.

Messenger is the masterful third novel in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which includes The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Son--all newly designed!
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Review quotes

"Lowry masterfully presents another thought-provoking, haunting tale in this third novel, a companion to The Giver and Gathering Blue." ——- Publishers Weekly, Starred

"Lowry moves far beyond message, writing with a beautiful simplicity rooted in political fable, in warm domestic detail, and in a wild natural world, just on the edge of realism."
— Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

"Told in simple, evocative prose, this companion to The Giver (1993) and Gathering Blue (2000) can stand on its own as a powerful tale of great beauty."
— Kirkus Reviews, Starred
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780547995670
Lexile Measure
720
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
September 20, 2012
Series
Giver Quartet
BISAC categories
YAF001020 - Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure | Survival Stories
YAF015000 - Young Adult Fiction | Dystopian
Library of Congress categories
Science fiction
Community life
Healers
Utopias

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