|a Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. The novel is set in an isolated and backwards village led by the Council of Guardians. It is part of the The Giver Quartet and followed by Messenger. There was fear of cold, of sickness and hunger. Gathering Blue, written by Lois Lowry, is a story set within the universe of her earlier YA novel, The Giver. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things.

|a Contains 'A readers guide' at the end of the book, p.1-13. Fear was always a part of life for the people.

If you want to read them all start in this order The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Messenger, Son.|a New York : |b Laurel-leaf books, |c c2002, 2000. This book is closely related to 'The Giver' which I also recommend, you have to read one to understand the other. If you read this book you will notice it starts out pretty slow, but when you get a little further it gets better an things start coming together. but knowing Lois Lowry and her writing skills I knew this book was going to be great like 'The Giver'. It is the second book in The Giver Quartet series. I also didn't expect this book to be as dark and full of a lot of sad in it, I expected it to be a little happier. This book has been reviewed by Focus on the Familys marriage and parenting magazine.

For instance I thought that the book would start off a bit better, but I knew at the end it would be good and things would start coming together. My expectations were sort of wrong and sort of right. She does everything to make sure no one figures out her plans. After a while of being noticed she figures out some of the things the council keeps secret and then makes plans to figure out what lies outside of her community and some more of the top secrets. The council of guardians do away with the ones who have problems, but when the council of guardians finds out that Kira is very good knitter/weaver/sewer they spare her and actually pay attention to her. The story is a bout a girl named Kira who is an orphan with a crippled leg. 'Gathering Blue' was published in 2000 then 'Messenger' in 2004 and finally 'Son' in 2012. She is the author of the two widely known book 'The Giver' and 'Number the Stars'. This book was written by Lois Lowry who was born in 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii, since she was born in 1937 she is 75 years old.

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