Gathering blue /
by Lois Lowry.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- 215 p. ; 22 cm.
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.