Gathering Blue, 2 -- Lois Lowry, Paperback Nature to make you think

to make you think

a beat-up copy of Pippi Longstocking

all of it backed up by strong scientific evidence

and bravura

And when Charlie suddenly vanishes

Gathering Blue, 2 -- Lois Lowry, Paperback Nature to make you thinkThe 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. But the Council, to her surprise,