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Son | August 8, 2012

by Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt children's Book Group Oct. 2012)

Fans of dystopian teen fiction, think back to your first experience with the horror and wonder of a dystopian world. Was it Lois Lowry’s The Giver? Good news: the fourth installment in Lowry’s series about a dystopian future, Son, releases this October, and it doesn’t disappoint. Lowry’s clean writing and compelling characters are as classic as ever, and fans will enjoy meeting Claire, a young girl whose path intersects with many familiar characters from the first three books. Lowry expertly weaves together themes of love, loss, motherhood, and the classic struggle between the good and evil parts of oneself in this final book of the quartet. One caveat: if you haven’t reread the earlier books recently, it might be worth doing so; subtleties of Son may be lost in the reading otherwise.

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