Messenger (novel)

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Messenger

First edition cover
Author	Lois Lowry
Language	English
Series	The Giver Quartet
Genre	Young adult fiction
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	April 26, 2004
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover, paperback)
Pages	169
ISBN	978-0618404414
OCLC	53215694
Dewey Decimal	[Fic] 22
LC Class	PZ7.L9673 Me 2004
Preceded by	Gathering Blue
Followed by	Son

Messenger is a 2004 young adult dystopian novel by American author Lois Lowry, as is the third installment of The Giver Quartet, which began with the 1993 Newbery Medal-winning novel The Giver. The story takes place about six years after the events of The Giver, and the events of Gathering Blue, the preceding novel in the series. Characters from both of the previous books reappear in Messenger and give the novels a stronger continuity.

Set in an isolated community known simply as Village, the novel focuses on a boy, Matty, who serves as message-bearer through the ominous and lethal Forest that surrounds the community.