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Summary: Gathering Blue is the BEST book I have ever read!
Review: I have read a lot of books in my life..., and Gathering Blue is favorite. I love how it is kinda a mystery, and then it is just interesting! Gathering Blue is about a girl named Kira who has a crippled leg. Now that her mother is no longer there to defend her, she is facing the battle FOR her life. Will she win the battle? Find out by reading Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowery.
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Summary: Gathering Blue is the BEST book I have ever read!
Review: I have read a lot of books in my life (11 years), and Gathering Blue is favorite. I love how it is kinda a mystery, and then it is just interesting! Gathering Blue is about a girl named Kira who has a crippled leg. Now that her mother is no longer there to defend her, she is facing the battle FOR her life. Will she win the battle? Find out by reading Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowery.
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Summary: Bryanas opinon
Review: This book really gives mixed feelings, from despair to great happiness. I feel the ending should have had more description, because basically i had to perdict. Perdicting does take your imagination far places Louis might of done that for a purpose but i still feel that there should have been an explanation of what life turned out to be for Kira. But the ending did not throw off my opinon about the good things in the book, i truly like this book because there is surprises and little things that make you shocked, happy, or even sad. this book was very good~bryana..radical readers SYCAMORE
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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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