Strange changes are taking place in Village. As one of the few people able to travel through the dangerous Forest, Matty must deliver the message that Village will soon be closed to outsiders. But Forest has become hostile to Matty as well, and he is armed only with an emerging power he cannot yet explain or understand.Messenger is the masterful third novel in Lois Lowry's best-selling Giver Quartet, which includes The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Son.