TY - BOOK AU - Lowry,Lois TI - Son SN - 0547887205 AV - PZ7.L9673 So 2012 U1 - F LOW 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Mother and child KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Separation (Psychology) KW - Fiction KW - Science fiction KW - Mother-child relationship KW - sears KW - gsafd N1 - Companion book to: The Giver, Gathering blue, and Messenger; Booklist starred; Publisher's Weekly; School Library Journal starred; Booklist starred, June 2012; Horn Book, September 2012; Kirkus Starred, May 2012; Publisher's Weekly, September 2012; School Library Journal starred, September 2012; Young Adult; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 ER -