Gossamer

Written by Lois Lowry

A tiny dreamgiver battles dark creatures to protect a troubled boy from nightmares.

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176 pages· 24,499 words· Est. 2.5 hour read· 660L

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Bookroo's summary

Littlest One, a novice dreamgiver, learns to weave pleasant dreams from cherished memories. But when John, a troubled foster child, arrives, sinister creatures threaten him with nightmares. Can Littlest One's gentle touch shield John's heart from his haunting past? As darkness looms, the stakes rise, testing her courage and skill in a world where dreams and nightmares collide.

From the publisher

From the two-time Newbery Award winning author of Number the Stars and The Giver, comes a novel about how even the smallest of dreams can break through the darkest of nights.

Littlest One is a tiny creature slowly learning her job of giving dreams to humans. Each night she and her teacher, Thin Elderly, visit an old woman’s home where she softly touches beloved objects, gathering happy memories, and drops of old scents and sounds. Littlest One pieces these bits together and presents them to her sleeping human in the form of pleasant dreams. But the dreaded Sinisteeds, dark fearsome creatures that plague their victims with nightmares, are always at work against the dreamgivers. When the old woman takes in John, an angry foster child with a troubled past, the Sinisteeds go after him with their horrifying nightmares. Can Littlest One, and her touch light as gossamer, protect John’s heart and soul from the nightmare of his dark past?

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