Bet you didn't know it was a series

The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, Lois Lowry

Many students are familiar with Lowry's Newbery-winning book about a boy who is chosen to receive the city's memories. But quite a few aren't aware of the companion novel, Gathering Blue, which occurs in another community at the same point in time. Messenger links these two worlds together, but it unfortunately uses a plot devite that can seem to have religious overtones (which is just fine, but comes across as too heavily/clunkily applied).

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