I had just turned nineteen - just finished my sophomore year in college - when I married a Naval officer and continued the odyssey that military life requires.

High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own.

Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Don't miss the powerful companion novels in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.'I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. 'This extraordinary novel is remarkable for its fully realized characters, gripping plot, and Lowry's singular vision of a future.' -VOYA Once again Lois Lowry brings readers on a provocative journey that inspires contemplation long after the last page is turned. On her quest for truth, Kira discovers things that will change her life and world forever.Ī compelling examination of a future society, Gathering Blue challenges readers to think about community, creativity, and the values that they have learned to accept. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, the young girl faces new responsibilities and a set of mysteries deep within the only world she has ever known. When she is summoned to judgment by The Council of Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life.īut the Council, to her surprise, has plans for her. Her neighbors are hostile, and no one but a small boy offers to help. Left orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frighteningly uncertain future.

The second book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning The Giver.

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