Gathering Blue

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Gathering Blue

First edition cover
Author	Lois Lowry
Language	English
Series	The Giver Quartet
Genre	Young adult fiction
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	September 25, 2000
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	241
ISBN	0-618-05581-9
OCLC	43728928
Dewey Decimal	[Fic] 21
LC Class	PZ7.L9673 Gat 2000
Preceded by	The Giver
Followed by	Messenger

Gathering Blue is a young adult-dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry and was published on September 25, 2000.^[1] A companion book to The Giver (1993), it is set in the same future time period and universe, treats some of the same themes, and is followed by Messenger (2004) and Son (2012) in The Giver Quartet.

The central character, Kira, who has a deformed leg, is orphaned and must learn to survive in a society that normally leaves the weak or disabled exposed to die in the fields. In the course of the book, she begins to learn the art of dyeing thread to different colors except for blue, which nobody in her community knows how to make. She also learns more about the truth of her village and the terrible secrets that they hold.