Question: Gathering Blue is a young adult-social science novel, released in the year 2000, written by Lois Lowry, an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books, and has won how many Newbery Medals?
Sentence (from "Gathering Blue"): It is a companion book to "The Giver" (1993) being set in the same future time period and universe, treating some of the same themes, and is followed by "Messenger" (2004), and "Son" (2012) in "The Giver Quartet".
Relevant evidence: No