Gathering Blue, 2 These issues only get worse

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brutally honest memoir of elite sports gone wrong--and a clear-eyed call for how parents

for anyone who has endured the worst possible loss

who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine

Gathering Blue, 2 These issues only get worseThe 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,