Gathering Blue

The second book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning The Giver . Left orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frighteningly uncertain future. Her neighbors are hostile, and no one but a small boy offers to help. When she is summoned to judgment by The Council of Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life.