Other editions of book Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry won the first of her two Newbery Medals in 1990 for Number the Stars. Six years later she ushered readers back into the mysterious but plausible future world of The Giver to tell the story of Kira, orphaned, physically flawed, and left with an uncertain future. This second book in the Giver Quartet has been stunningly redesigned in both paperback and hardcover. As she did in The Giver and later The Messenger, in Gathering Blue Lois Lowry challenges readers to imagine what our world could become, how people could evolve, and what could be considered valuable. Return again to the world of The Giver in Lowry’s concluding volume, Son, available in September 2012.

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After conjuring the pitfalls of a technologically advanced society in The Giver, Lowry looks toward a different type of future to create this dark, prophetic tale with a strong medieval flavor. Having suffered numerous unnamed disasters (aka, the Ruin), civilization has regressed to a primitive, technology-free state; an opening author's note describes a society in which "disorder, savagery, and self-interest" rule.

Lois Lowry won the first of her two Newbery Medals in 1990 for Number the Stars. Six years later she ushered readers back into the mysterious but plausible future world of The Giver to tell the story of Kira, orphaned, physically flawed, and left with an uncertain future. This second book in the Giver Quartet has been stunningly redesigned in both paperback and hardcover. As she did in The Giver and later The Messenger, in Gathering Blue Lois Lowry challenges readers to imagine what our world could become, how people could evolve, and what could be considered valuable. Return again to the world of The Giver in Lowry’s concluding volume, Son, available in September 2012.Book Details:Format: HardcoverPublication Date: 9/25/2012Pages: 224Reading Level: Age 12 and Up