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Gathering Blue is a great novel about a girl named Kira who was born with a crippled leg. Her mother, Katrina, was a remarkable weaver and taught her daughter most of the skills that she would need in her life. Yet one day, Katrina died of a rare illness and was sent to the Field of Leaving. Kira was young still, and had never experienced death before, not in the small two-person family that she and her mother had been. Now there was no one who could take care of Kira, for she didnt have any close relatives. Only one person willingly offered to protect and amuse Kira - her friend, Matt, an eight-year-old intrepid boy who absolutely hated taking baths! He lived in the swampy, disagreeable Fen, probably the child of a dragger or digger. He had found a small dog and named it Branch, because he had matted its torn tail with twigs and leaves. There was one person who absolutely hated Kira - Vandara. Everyone knew her. The woman was tall and muscular, with long, tangled hair tied back to her neck. She had a scar that marked her chin and continued down her neck to her broad shoulder.
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