# Gathering Blue

**Author(s):** Lois Lowry
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/gathering-blue/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, sci-fi, middle-grade, dystopian, childrens
**Publisher:** HarperCollins Publishers Limited
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780007597277
**ISBN-10:** 0007597274
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/gathering-blue

## Series
- The Giver Quartet (#2)

## Description

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

## SageChimp reader verdict

Gathering Blue has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/gathering-blue/verdict.json

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