Gathering Blue By Lois Lowry

My book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry was about a girl named Kira who lives in community where things are very weird. Kira had just become an orphan recently when her mother died of the flu. Since her mother died of the flu they had to burn down Kira’s house. Kira came to the grounds where her house was, and started to rebuild when a large women comes in and tells her she doesn’t own this space any more because her mother is dead and with Kira’s messed up leg she is useless, so they are taking her house and are going to build a place for the children. Kira says that she owns the space and refuses to move. The women goes to the council with this and is asking them to kill Kira. Kira goes to the council and with her unbelievably good ability
to weave she is spared and given the very important job of repairing the singer’s robe. They move her into a nice room where she must weave/fix the robe. Kira meets a boy named Thomas ,who is a gifted carver, in the house. Thomas and Kira get to know each other better, and they start to hang out more. One night while to 2 are hanging out they here a child’s cry, and a scraping sound in the other room. They later learn that the singer is staying in that room. Kira’s friend Matt comes and visits her with a secret of making blue thread, and a man wearing a blue shirt. This man is her father. Kira learns that her father was just beat up by other men and left to die out in a field, but a community of people came and saved him. This community is full of rejects, and broken people like Kira. Kira’s father asks her to come to the village with her. She doesn’t know if she should. Kira later finds out that the little singer girl was in shackles, that was the scraping sound she was hearing. She also learned that the singer is the only one. There are many talented people being locked up here. Kira thinks maybe she should go, but she later tells her father that she is going to stay to weave, and help her community become better.