The release date for the English version of 'Gathering Blue' by
Lois Lowry is Sep 2000. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Once again, Lois Lowry crafts a futuristic universe that is both fascinating and believable in her best work to date. It's a civilization of cruelty and dishonesty that rejects and discards the helpless. Young Kira, left physically defective and orphaned, confronts a terrifying, unknown future. She is endowed with an almost magical ability that sustains her life, but she faces ever greater obligations as she pursues the truth and learns things that will alter her course in life forever.
Lowry asks readers to envision what our world may look like in the future and what will be valued, much as she did in The Giver. Every reader will be moved by Kira's situation and will think deeply about her eerie environment and the optimism that lies ahead.