Messenger (Giver Quartet #3)

ISBN-13:	9781328466204
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Series:	Giver Quartet
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	20,818
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	720L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

The 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.