Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet 2) In her strongest work to date, 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 alles 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 iine what our world could become, and ill be considered valuable Every reader will be taken by Kira&39;s plight and will long ponder her haunting world and the hope for the future