Gathering Blue
 Gathering Blue is a 2000 children's social science fiction dystopian novel by children's author Lois Lowry. The book is a companion novel to The Giver (1993) and Messenger (2004) and is followed by Son (2012) in The Giver Series. It is set in the same future time period and it treats some of the same themes.The central character Kira who has a deformed leg is orphaned and must learn to survive in a society that normally leaves the weak or disabled exposed to die in the fields.