Pub Date: March 5, 2013
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0680
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 12 to UP
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.20" L x 5.40" W ( 0.50 lbs) 256 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy | General | Dystopian | Family | Orphans and Foster Homes | Girls and Women | Social Themes | SelfEsteem and SelfReliance | Science Fiction | Coming of Age
Series: Giver Quartet
Description: Lowry won her first Newbery Medal in 1994 for "The Giver." Six years later, she ushered readers back into its mysterious but plausible future world in "Gathering Blue" to tell the story of Kira, orphaned, physically flawed, and left with an uncertain future.
Brief description:
Lois Lowry is the author of more than fifty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.
Review Quotes:
"Lowry returns to the metaphorical future world of her Newbery-winning The Giver. . . . Plenty of material for thought and discussion here, plus a touch of magic and a tantalizing hint about the previous book's famously ambiguous ending." - Kirkus Reviews
"Lowry is a master at creating worlds, both real and imagined, and this incarnation of our civilization some time in the future is one of her strongest creations." - Booklist (starred review)