Messenger (The Giver #3) by Lois Lowry

Messenger (The Giver #3) by Lois Lowry-142 pages

This is the story of Matty and how we learn of his true name. It is set six years after the events of Gathering Blue and Matty has been in Village with Seer (Kira's father, Christopher) the entire time. Village has always been a welcoming haven for those who didn't fit in at their former villages (many of their former villages discouraged or disallowed emotions/feeling or were very flawed in some way). However, Village is changing for the worse and will soon be closed to outsiders. Matty must return to his old village and convince Kira to return with him to Village and Seer. We learn of Matty's true name at the end of the book, but there are clues throughout. I am eagerly anticipating the story's end in Son, which is the fourth and last book of The Giver Quartet.