Messenger

Lois Lowry

Apr 2004 · Giver Quartet Book 3 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

the first one is much better because there wasn't supposed to be a second one made and Lois Lowry was mad that someone made a second one to try and make a sequel to the one that she purpusly made so that there is no ending and so you shouldn't be allowed to make a sequel if a sequel wasn't suppposed to be made.

this was a fantastic tale, a good addition to the giver series, however i still love "The Giver" more. I thought it was interesting and converted Jonah's journey into a mission to become a leader of a town...i hope Lois Lowry continues to write in the Giver series because the original tale was the best i have ever read. :)

One of the very best books I ever read. Teaches a great lesson about selfishness. And how it can effect your whole town. It also combines all three of the books perfectly. This triolgy is the best that Lois has written.

About the author

Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.