Lois Lowry

Gathering Blue é um livro da autora Lois Lowry. O livro faz parte do conjunto chamado de O quarteto O doador precedido por The Giver,seguido por por Messenger e Son. É ambientado no mesmo período futuro e aborda alguns dos mesmos temas. A personagem principal é Kira, que tem uma perna deformada, é orfã e deve aprender …

As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population …

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin …