Lois Lowry - Gossamer

Pros: Fresh, imaginative
Cons: Too graphic in spots

A tale sparkling with imagination that plunges us into darkness then leaves us with hope's glimmer, Gossamer is the type of story I've come to expect from Lois Lowry, the author of the Newbery Medal winning novel,The Giver. Published in ...

Pros: Introduction to fantasy
Character development
Heartwarming
Quality writing

Cons: Nothing negative

“This gathering, this dwelling place where they slept now, heaped together, was only one, a relatively small one, of many. It was a small subcolony of dream-givers. Every human population has countless such colonies—invisible always—of ...

Pros: Science fiction, dreams are prominant in the book, unusual
Cons: The names, info comes slowly

This is a book designed to get Junior High students into reading. As a child, I loved science fiction and preferred it over all other types of books. Gossamer was not a book that I read when I was younger though. Once I had heard about this book, I dived ...