Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry, is about a crippled girl with a gimp leg, named Kira, who is a peaceful weaver within a violent and primitive society limited to a small village. She is orphaned when her mother dies abruptly and she is chosen to recreate a beautiful, amazing coat for the village’s annual worship ceremony. Throughout the story, she discovers the hidden lies and secrets of her society and its past. For example, she finds out that her father is alive and that he was almost killed and has been sent into exile, not taken by beasts like she had always been told. She learns that her father lives in a mystical village of other “brokens” and she leaves her society to live with them. I enjoyed this story because it shows how sometimes something that you trust and believe in on the surface can actually be bad for you on the inside.