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Gossamer by Lois Lowry, Anne Twomey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Gossamer about?

<p><p><B>Two-time Newbery Award winner, Lois Lowry, explores the bits of life that come alive in dreams, and the darker horrors that find their form in nightmares.</B><p>Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears? 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.</p><h3>Child Magazine</h3><p>There is method to the madness of dreams -- or so kids will believe after falling under the spell of this superbly imaginative story. A dream-giver whose "touch was like gossamer," Littlest One hails from a race of beings who bestow healing dreams patched together from memory fragments found in sleepers' belongings. Assigned to help a troubled foster child and his elderly guardian, this novice dream-giver must do battle with "sinisteeds" who create nightmares from "hidden things, old guilts, and failings." With one foot in the real world and the other in fantasy, belove

Who reads Gossamer?

Author

Lois Lowry, Anne Twomey

Publisher

Assembled by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780329642259

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.88 / 5 (412 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13