Author:
Lowry, Lois.
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2012.
Description393 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Companion book to: The Giver, Gathering blue, and Messenger.
Note:Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.