Gossamer by Lois Lowry

Title: Gossamer

Author: Lois Lowry (Also the Author of Number the Stars)

Stars: 5

Description: Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of the most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears? Drawing on her rich imagination, two-time Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry confronts these questions and explores the conflict's between the gentle bits and pieces of the past that come to life in dream and 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 each other, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see.

Dreams, nightmares, what give them? In this book there are creatures that go and collect fragments of memories around the house and give them to humans in a dream. But there are two kinds of creatures, ones that give dreams and one that gives nightmares.

John is a angry eight year old boy who needs help. The old woman is that one that takes care of him until John's mother can take care of him. John's mother has been through a lot, her divorce from her husband that was just cruel to her and she just needs to clean up her act so she can take care of John.

And how she gets John is through the creatures, tiny things they will never see....

If you like dreams this book is for you. I really like this book because of Lois Lowry's imagination. She creates such cool things. In this book, I like how she describes how they get dream. From touching things around a room and making them into a dream and giving them to humans.

Lois Lowry is also a great author and I have read another one of her books, Number the Stars, which was a fantastic book and I really advice to read this book and Number the Stars. Bu the way, my mom read Number that Stars and LOVED it and now she is going to try this one, Gossamer.

Natalie