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100			_aLowry, Lois _9481
245			_aLois Lowry gathering blue : _bA companion to the Newbery Award winner the Giver / _cLois Lowry.
260			_aNew York : _bScholastic, _c2000
300			_a215 pages.
520			_aIn 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 almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles 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 imagine what our world could become, and what will be considered valuable. Every reader will be taken by Kira's plight and will long ponder her haunting world and the hope for the future.
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