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Lois Lowry

Gathering Blue: 2 (Giver Quartet) Hardcover – 25 September 2012

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Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever.

As she did in THE GIVER, Lowry challenges readers to imagine what our world could become, how people could evolve, and what could be considered valuable. Every reader will be taken by Kira’s plight and will long ponder her haunting world and the hope for the future.

Reading age

11 - 14 years
Print length

241 pages
Language

English
Grade level

7 - 9
Lexile measure

680L
Dimensions

13.97 x 2.36 x 20.96 cm
Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date

25 September 2012
ISBN-10

0547995687
ISBN-13

978-0547995687
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Lowry returns to the metaphorical future world of her Newbery-winning The Giver. . . . Plenty of material for thought and discussion here, plus a touch of magic and a tantalizing hint about the previous book's famously ambiguous ending. (6/15/00) Kirkus Reviews with Pointers

Lowry is a master at creating worlds, both real and imagined, and this incarnation of our civilization some time in the future is one of her strongest creations. --Booklist, starred review (6/1/00) Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

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Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside. She fears for her future until she is spared by the all-powerful Council of Guardians. Kira is a gifted weaver and is given a task that no other community member can do. While her talent keeps her alive and brings certain privileges, Kira soon realizes she is surrounded by many mysteries and secrets. No one must know of her plans to uncover the truth about her world and see what places exist beyond.

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Reissue edition (25 September 2012)
Language : English
Hardcover : 241 pages
ISBN-10 : 0547995687
ISBN-13 : 978-0547995687
Reading age : 11 - 14 years
Item Weight : 340 g
Dimensions : 13.97 x 2.36 x 20.96 cm

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Aman Rehman K P

Stories good to read

Reviewed in India on 3 March 2020

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It was a well outstanding work with numerous heart touching feelings. The author had defined and classified every character with all its value. Although I am not good about the ending but it has a point in other perspective. I would recommend everyone to read especially to beginners who had started to read. The story is defined with simple word eventhough astonishing.

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J. Ang

The Story in the Song

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2018

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This is Book 2 of the Giver Quartet, and though the characters are different, it is set in the same story universe of the phenomenal first book. However, unlike the technologically advanced society we saw in “The Giver”, this book features a strangely regressive village setting, which seems to suggest that civilisation had reached its zenith and now this future society has become more backward.

A crippled girl, Kira, lives in a strictly regulated village until she becomes orphaned when her mother dies and sent to “the Fields”, leaving her defenceless among hostile neighbours lacking any communal spirit, which is unusual in a community like this. We begin to find out the functional way of life among her people and how children or “tykes” are regarded - fenced in as they are like cattle while their mothers worked round the house and the men hunted or laboured away from the house. Kira, being “damaged” for her disability, and having lost her father to alleged wild beasts on a hunt just before she was born, should have been sent to the fields to die if her mother had not shown violent resistance. She picks up the weaving trade from her mother, and it is her magical talent that ultimately saves her from being banished and whisked of by the “Guardians” to live in the Council Edifice, a courtly building that is the only urban relic remaining from the past.

Kira’s task as a master weaver and repairer of the Singer’s robe, a ceremonial garment flaunted at the annual Gathering, contains images of the history of the villages, that accompanies the Singer’s epic song like a retelling of it. Her role is monumental because after the repair of the existing painted parts of the robe is done, she is to draw images on the empty portions to fill in the future. She soon finds out she is not the only “artist” on the block, and there is another boy, Thomas, who is kept in another room to work on the Singer’s staff, and together, with the aid of her little friend, Matt, a ghetto boy with his dog, they begin to discover nothing is as it seems and secrets behind the idyll of their newfound comfortable and purposeful lives.

It is remarkable that Lowry builds her story world with seeming ease, for example, in the way the number of syllables in someone’s name places him or her in a specific generation, so a teenager like Kira would have two syllables in her name, her friend, Matt, still a tyke only has a one-syllable name. Kira’s mentor and rescuer Jamison, holds a three-syllable name, while the old woman who teaches her how to colour her threads is called Annabella. It also suggests the evolving identities that are never stable. The locales, like the Fen, which is the village ghetto from where Matt lives, is also true to life in all its poverty and desolation. The sense of unease that pervades the novel, does not go away even when one finishes it, and perhaps that is the point Lowry makes, and what makes this story a hopeful dystopian tale, ironic as the description sounds.

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Kira's mother had died after an illness, her home was burnt down and she expected to be thrown out of the village, Kira was born with a deformed leg and should have been thrown out at birth but her mother wouldn't allow it, she was summoned to a meeting of the elders to decide her fate, a women spoke against her as she wanted Kira's land, but instead of throwing her out because of her skill in embroidery she was given a room in the large building where she would work on the coat of someone known as the Singer, she also made friends with Thomas a boy working on the Singer's staff

Kira had made friends with an 8yrs old boy Matt, he was always kind to her and was allowed to visit, although taught to stitch by her mother she didn't know how to dye the thread and was sent to Annabelle in the forest, in the room under Thomas he could hear crying, after thinking about what they were doing they realised Thomas, Jo the girl crying downstairs and Kira had mysteriously lost their parents, they were all orphans, Kira wondered how her mother became sick, nobody else was ill

CantVal

Excellent follow on to the Giver

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2018

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Although not immediately obviously connected to the giver and so it could be read separately in its own right that might be a pity if you are going to continue with the third and fourth books in this quartet. I read it, at bedtimes, to my Grandson and both of us thoroughly enjoyed it. This one has a girl as the main character but that does not mean that it is not suitable for boys. There is also a lots of interesting information about dyeing and embroidery and some of it had us looking up things on the internet the following day. Thoroughly recommended.

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H J Mac

An intruiging follow up to The Giver

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 August 2014

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This is a lovely book, it only hints that it's set in the same world as The Giver. I figured by the end that somehow the world at that time is divided into communities, and this is another one.

This one is in fact crueler than the society in The Giver. But more straightforward. So being ill or disabled means being left out in a field to die. However some children have gifts, similar to Jonas in The Giver, and those children are removed and looked after to exploit their gifts for the community. Girls and women are oppressed and not allowed an education.

There are some great characters in this, Kira, the main character is very interesting and engaging, and I adored Matt, the naughty little boy with the little dog, and there is a very cute little girl who sings.

Highly recommend this book.

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Babylon

Great series, in fact amazing, but this book not the strongest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2020

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Like ‘The Giver’, this was a very well written book, and very enjoyable. The world was well described, the characters too. The story was simple but engaging, but it wasn’t as gripping as The Giver. I will read the rest is the books, however, as the series is and the world are both great.

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