Messenger (Giver Quartet) (Giver Quartet, 3)The third book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal winning The Giver. Trouble is brewing in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on welcoming strangers, Village will soon be cut off to all outsiders. As one of the few able to traverse the forbidding Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Villages closing and try to convince Seers daughter Kira to return with him before its too late. But