Son (Giver #4)

Lowry, Lois.  Son.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2012. 

ISBN 9780547887203, hardback $17.99,  Ages 13 and up.

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The conclusion to the Giver series brings together familiar characters to wrap up the storyline.  A teenage mother escapes her restrictive community on a quest to find her son, but must sacrifice her youth to see him again.  A struggle between good and evil resolves well.

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What if you couldn’t remember anything about your previous life, but a scar on your abdomen revealed that you’d once had a child?  That was Before.  And what would you give up in order to meet a child who doesn’t even know of your existence?  Claire is a teenage mother whose escape to a new community leaves her aching with only one desire: to find her missing son.  This is Between.  In the fourth and final book of The Giver quartet, we learn what happens to familiar characters Jonas, Kira, and Gabriel, from the perspective of Gabriel’s birthmother Claire and her own adventures journeying to find them in Beyond.  As they confront and vanquish evil, they learn the true power of love.

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