![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kira is a disabled girl whose mother had just died and she is left to try and fend for herself while some woman in the village want her sent away. This society is a more dark and savage civilization that does not treat all citizen equal. In this companion novel to The Giver by Lois Lowry, Kira is living in a village that is almost the complete opposite of Jonas’s community from The Giver. *Warning this may contain spoilers because it is a companion novel* Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever. ![]() Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. “You are stronger than those who have none.” “ Take pride in your pain,” her mother had always told her. ![]()
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