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My book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry was about a girl named Kira who lives in community where things are very weird. Kira had just become an orphan recently when her mother died of the flu. Since her mother died of the flu they had to burn down Kira’s house. Kira came to the grounds where her house was, and started to rebuild when a large women comes in and tells her she doesn’t own this space any more because her mother is dead and with Kira’s messed up leg she is useless, so they are taking her house and are going to build a place for the children. Kira says that she owns the space and refuses to move. The women goes to the council with this and is asking them to kill Kira. Kira goes to the council and with her unbelievably good ability

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