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Son

Lois Lowry

2012356 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2012
first published
  • 2012Houghton Mifflin · 394 pages · ENGISBN 9780547887203
  • 2013Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning · 421 pages · ENGISBN 9781410454485
  • 2014Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 400 pages · ENGISBN 9780544336254
  • 2014Turtleback · 400 pagesISBN 9780606359795
  • 2015Arkadas Yayinlari · 356 pagesISBN 9789755098418
  • 2013Tai WAN Dong Fang/Tsai Fong Books · 480 pagesISBN 9789863380030
  • 2012Listening Library (Audio)ISBN 9780449014462
  • 2012Random HouseISBN 9781616378134

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

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Written forMiddle grade
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