Messenger [Giver Quartet Volume: bk. 3]by Lowry, Lois 

Paperback(Houghton Mifflin, 2018)

BTSB #: 589561 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-14   
AR: 4.9 MG+RC: 6.2 6-8 Lexile: 720 F&P: Y

Genres: Science Fiction

Subjects: Utopian fiction Community life - Fiction Healing - Fiction

Summary: In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

Space between before and after by Stauffacher, Sue 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2019)

BTSB #: 844437 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.9 MG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Depression (Psychology) - Fiction Missing persons - Fiction Family life - Fiction Storytelling - Fiction Healing - Fiction

Summary: When 10-year-old Thomas's mother, who suffers from depression, disappears, he creates a fantasy narrative in which his mother is safe and sets in motion a path of healing, not just for himself, but for his father and aunt as well.