Gathering Blue, 2 -- Lois Lowry, Paperback Nature And when Charlie suddenly vanishes

And when Charlie suddenly vanishes

to make you think

and bravura

where life is good and full of color

With crackling suspense

Gathering Blue, 2 -- Lois Lowry, Paperback Nature And when Charlie suddenly vanishesThe second book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal winning The Giver. Left orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frighteningly uncertain future. Her neighbors are hostile, and no one but a small boy offers to help. When she is summoned to judgment by The Council of Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life. But the Council, to her surprise,