Gathering Blue/Lois Lowry/215 pgs

Book two in the Giver quartet, introduces the reader to a different future society compared to the one in The Giver. Society in The Giver was highly technological and emotionally repressed, whereas society in Gathering Blue is very rudimentary, and consists of greed and inhumanity. The key character is Kira, a crippled, and recently orphaned,  young girl. She is saved from being taken to the Field and left to die because of her skill in embroidery. She is given the task of repairing the robe worn at the annual Ruin Song Gathering--a day dedicated to retelling the history of Kira's village. However, Kara comes to learn that all is not what it seems to be. The reader is totally sucked in, and this reader can't wait to read the next installment!