Son

Son
Lois Lowry

The thrilling fourth companion novel to THE GIVER which inspired the dystopian genre and is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift.They called her Water Claire.When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions don’t exist. That she had become a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been stolen from her body.Claire’s son is out there, a young boy now. She was supposed to forget him, but that was impossible. Now Claire will stop at nothing to find her child, even if it means making an unimaginable sacrifice.The startling and long-awaited conclusion to Lois Lowry’s award-winning epic series THE GIVER QUARTET culminates in a final clash between good and evil.

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Published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in 2012

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2014

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Table of Contents

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Title Page (#u52f4d7f2-1026-51f7-8f7d-eff4e85ed055)

Copyright (#u1c31bd8a-0faa-5a48-9c46-1d5b142cfa80)

Dedication (#u4260c120-a3a2-5c0a-9a96-977f89387de1)

Book I: Before (#uaa1542cb-a328-5f5c-beb5-0d9eb909e8b0)

Chapter One (#u2d9e7e86-6417-51ce-81f0-9c89cc22be49)

Chapter Two (#ub4535f9e-3008-5253-8548-10591ca921a0)

Chapter Three (#u9d3d061c-74d5-5638-8c12-d042452baab4)

Chapter Four (#u024c3dc3-f02a-5317-a555-3ed93faf1b73)

Chapter Five (#u634a12e2-d0c5-53a2-bc18-a3916eb38db5)

Chapter Six (#uacfe7e79-83ad-53d8-9272-44beebd70674)

Chapter Seven (#u8081d3d3-f912-5f25-98d3-b2ff65767115)

Chapter Eight (#ua7d17e5e-7cf6-5840-a277-21af7dd07d89)

Chapter Nine (#ued27c8cc-ecf0-5f17-9268-64aa77ce4cc1)

Chapter Ten (#u395d4bc4-3925-5e4f-8fb6-e1643e94e341)

Chapter Eleven (#u4bf11d2c-d7f7-55bf-94dd-c17fe3db58f2)

Chapter Twelve (#u60c52b7a-93ca-542d-8e55-337b2e88ca29)

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Book II: Between (#litres_trial_promo)

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