The Giver
Gathering Blue is a young adult-dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry and was published on September 25, 2000. A companion book to "The Giver" (1993), it is set in the same future time period and universe, treats some of the same themes, and is followed by "Messenger" (2004) and "Son" (2012) in "The Giver Quartet".