Gathering Blue

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Summary: Gathering Blue
Review: I felt this book was very exiting, it was great to read! I think that kiras, thomas, and jos parents were killed so kira would work for the singer, and Annabelle was killed because she was telling kira the truth about the beast. it left questions in my mind in the ending, which lead me to predicting. Hopefully one day the two villages will join. i think Kira stayed because she felt as if she needed to change things in the village, she needed to change their evil way of doing things, and i felt that it was good that she stayed. I feel as if i already know that Kira is going to make big acomplishments.~ radical readers, Sycamore Valley Elemtary

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Summary: Gathering Blue
Review: My name is Megan Condie and this is what I think of Gathering Blue. it is a wonderful adventure story with a touch of tragedy. Great words and great voice is shown by Lois Lowery. With its own little twist of old time language. Awsome book for kids who like adventure yet tragedy.

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Summary: Gathering Blue : A strong, moving book of poweful drama
Review: Gathering Blue tells the story of a girl name Kira who was born with a twisted leg, whose judgement is to be sentenced to the Field -- a place where great and brutish beasts lie in hunger to devour anyone who is there. Battling her place in life, Kira struggles to overcome her enemy and all that threatens her -- with her wonderful and beautiful gift, Kira holds on to her dead mother's spirit and makes a friend who will change her life forever. Hopeful, daring to fullfill her dreams, Kira sets out on an amazing adventure to reclaim her position of life -- and using her marvelous gift, she begins to realize she is stronger then those who have no pain.

Gathering Blue is an extraordinarily powerful story. Stunningly written , Lois Lowry's true talent in writing is portrayed in this simple story that will move readers very much and will never fail to be one of the best books ever written in literal history.

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Summary: Ending is not disappointing
Review: Some reviewers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the ending. I beg to differ. While it does not offer total closure, it does offer much more than The Giver (another fabulous book by Lois Lowry) did. I fully expected another non-ending. This is a fabulous read. When a storm knocked out our electicity, I did not stop reading, I simply lit a candle and didn't extinguish it until I had finished the last page.

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Summary: A story of survival and community involvements
Review: In Gathering Blue, Kira is summoned to judgement by a village Council which abhors deformity, and she expects to die; but rescue by one member preserves her life in exchange for hard work on a ceremonial cape. Her talents come alive and Kira faces a new life herself in this story of survival and community involvements.

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Summary: Gathering Blue
Review: I have been waiting for this book since the reading of The Giver a few years back. It is absolutely spellbinding...a book that you cannot put down. I think that it is especially important to read The Giver first...where you are left hanging with the thought "Is there really another community for Jonas and Gabe to go to?" and with Gathering Blue you are left with anticipation for what the third book might bring....please, Lois Lowry, give us book 3 soon!! The fifth graders at my school are all waiting for book 3....we are trying to figure out what will happen in that book! A must read for all great readers! Betty Collins

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Summary: A brilliantly crafted book
Review: If this book had been in the first person, I would have thought that it was a story on the Singers Robe that Kira had sewn. I have read "Number the Stars" yet I think that "Gathering Blue" is much better. I enjoyed the subtle and deep excitment that was pulsing through the entire story. I sat down to start this book this morning, and I stood up after finishing this afternoon, with very few disruptions in between. If you only read one book of a similar (would-be-utopian) genre, I strongly suggest "Gathering Blue".

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Summary: Lois Lowry once again enters a futuristic world
Review: Lois Lowry once again enters a futuristic world, much like the one created in the giver but with major differences. This is a world where computers, electricity, and all other forms of technology are forgotton. People have shrunk back to the time where they had to hunt for their own food, and build there own houses. The protagonist of the story Kira, has her life at risk when her mother dies. Most people now see her to be flawed and useless and should be killed for it. SHe's forced to use her special gift in order to save her life. But what she finds out on her mental journey changes her perpective on life itself.

This book is thought-provoking and entertaining, especially to those who loved the giver. If you love books about survival, and society this book is for you. I would reccomend this book to anyone.

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Summary: Almost perfect
Review: Gathering Book was a wonderful story of a child growing up in a post-apocolptic dystopia. Though this story has some similarities to the Giver, because while the settings are nearly polar opposites, (an interesting question to ask is, if given choice would you rather live in Jonas's world or in Kira's?) the theme of a special child learning resposiblity are identical in both books.

Gathering Blue was on the whole an excellent read, but abrupt and unsatisfying ending and the muliple loose plot threads detracted from the book. The ending lacked any kind of closure that was desperatly needed.

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Summary: read my review!:)
Review: as the reader before me wrote, the ending was a bit dissapointing. but i also feel the possibility that a sequal could be coming. maybe not soon, but it is entirely possible. this was truly a powerful story, and, as in The Giver, it gives an outlook on what the future could look like.