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''[[Gathering Blue]]'', written by Lois Lowry, is a story set within the universe of her earlier YA novel, ''[[The Giver]]''.
Kira, a girl in an isolated and backwards village, receives an apprenticeship from the village's weaver. This is lucky for her, because she is crippled and would otherwise be left to die. The weaver repairs, maintains, and adds to a pictorial history of the village and the world around it, a job considered highly important. Things get more complicated as Kira's sidekick and friend Matt discovers the existence of a utopian village alluded to in ''The Giver''.
Unlike ''The Giver'', which takes place in a futuristic society, ''Gathering Blue'' takes place in a more obviously [[After the End]] technologically regressed society.
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* [[After the End]]: The Ruin, which is explained to be a series of wars, and natural disasters. The book implies that it is not a single event, but a recurring event throughout history.
* [[All Hail the Great God Mickey]]: A group of survivors worship a cross recovered from a Christian church. They don't know what Christianity actually was composed of before the apocalypse, but they do know that the cross had some importance.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]
* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Matt.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Kira, as well as Thomas and {{spoiler|Jo.}}
* [[Continuity Nod]]: A boy looking like Jonas in another community is mentioned to Kira. However, in some copies of ''[[The Giver]]'', which have interviews and notes with Lowry, [[Word of God|mentioned]] the reader is allowed to believe or not believe if this book is in the same universe as ''[[The Giver]]''.
** {{spoiler|Confirmed in the third book of the series,
* [[Crapsack World]]: Unlike in ''[[The Giver]]'', where the
* [[Future Imperfect]]
** Also, the Council of Edifice's building was formerly a church.
* [[Kid Hero]]
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