num_pages: 144
description: Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears? Drawing on her rich imagination, two-time Newbery winner Lois Lowry confronts these questions and explores the conflicts between the gentle bits and pieces of the past that come to life in dream, and the darker horrors that find their form in nightmare. In a haunting story that tiptoes between reality and imagination, two people—a lonely, sensitive woman and a damaged, angry boy—face their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see.Gossamer is perfect for readers not quite ready for Lois Lowry's Newbery-Award winner The Giver and also for readers interested in dreams, nightmares, spirits and the dream world.
language: English
title: Gossamer
titlecomplete: Gossamer
characters: Fastidious, Littlest One, Most Ancient, Thin Elderly
genres: Middle Grade, Audiobook, Childrens, Science Fiction, Juvenile, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Teen, Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 16783
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Clarion Books