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Also by Lois Lowry:

The Giver, July 2014
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Son, October 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Willoughbys, April 2008
Hardcover
Gossamer, May 2006
Hardcover
Messenger, April 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
Gathering Blue, September 2002
Paperback

GOSSAMER
By: Lois Lowry

Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears?

Houghton Mifflin
May 2006
144 pages
ISBN: 0618685502
Hardcover
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Drawing on her rich imagination, two-time Newbery winner Lois Lowry confronts these questions and explores the conflicts between the gentle bits and pieces of the past that come to life in dream, and the darker horrors that find their form in nightmare. In a haunting story that tiptoes between reality and imagination, two peoplea lonely, sensitive woman and a damaged, angry boyface their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see.

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All Things Considered - June 9, 2006