Gathering Blue
By
Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue was written
by Lois Lowry.
You enter into this village of unknown name or even time. It is left to the reader to form a place in your mind as you read it. There is no trace of any type of description of a where at or time. The only reference to a time period could possibly be the lack of modern connivances but even that is unsure. During my reading of this book I thought it was around the early 1800's.
This book has limited characters. The main character is a young lame girl named Kira. She is a loving but lonely person. She is generally mistrusting because of her handicap. Her mother is there only briefly and is killed off early in the book. However, there are mentions of her throughout. Her father Christopher is only a memory mentioned as he was killed before......
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Approximate Pages: 9 (260 words per double-spaced page) |