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Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Lois Lowry returns with MESSENGER; the eagerly anticipated companion to Gathering Blue and The Giver, winner of the Newbery Medal.
The Trilogy #3
Houghton Mifflin
April 2004
176 pages
ISBN: 0618404414
Trade Size (reprint)
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Fantasy | Young Adult
He noticed Kira reaching for her pack and spoke sharply to
her. “What are you doing? We have to move on a minute. It’s
dangerous here.” She hadn’t seen the deadly thing that had
grabbed at Matty, but he knew there would be more; he
watched the bushes for them. It had come for him first, he realized. He did not want to
be the first to die, to leave her alone. To his dismay, she was removing her embroidery tools. “Kira!
There’s no time!” “I might be able to . . . ” Deftly she threaded a needle. To what? He wondered bitterly. To create a handsome
wall-hanging depicting our last hours? He remembered that in
the art books he had leafed through at Leader’s, many
paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A
battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears
and fire; and nails being pounded into the tender flesh of a
man’s hands. Painters had preserved such pain through beauty. Perhaps she would. He watched her hands. They flew over the small frame, moving
in and out with the needle. Her eyes were closed. She was
not directing her own fingers. They simply moved. He waited, his eyes vigilant, watching the surrounding
bushes for the next attack. He feared the coming dark. He
wanted to move on, out of this place, before evening came.
But he waited while her hands moved.
Finally she looked up. “Someone is coming to help us,” she
said. “It’s the young man with the blue eyes.”
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