Helena feels alone after her mother dies and her father disappears in the woods. She wants to build a garden house but Vandara, who blames Helena for not receiving her mother's spirit, refuses to allow it. When a man who went into the woods doesn't return, Helena fears it was her father. However, her father is later found alive and blind, reunited with Helena through Matt, providing resolution.

1. Summer Reading ProjectGathering Blue Shelby Cooper #3

2. Summary Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry allows the reader to feal like their mother died and father had not come back from the woods.In the beginning Helena had come to the field of passing the day before her mother had died to watch her mothers spirit leave.To add on she was planning on building a house on a garden but Vandara would not allow it.She heard that a man went in the woods and had not come back because of the beast.

3. Setting The Cemitary is the setting

4. Protagonist Kira, her mother,kira’s challenge is living without a mother. Her mothers challenge was her sickness.

5. AntagoinistVandara is trying to haunt kira because she did not get to get her mothers spirit.

6. ConflictMAN VS. MANBECAUSE VANDARA DOES NOT LIKE KIRA

7. P.O.V.THIRD LIMITED

8. RESOULTION her dad did not die he met matt she saw that he was blind and she remembered that her dad had went to the woods and had not come back so maybe it was him.

9. ThemeDon’t feel bad if something is wrong with you.

10. Why is it called Gathering Blue It is called gathering blue beacausekira wanted blue dye.

11. Climax matt took her dad to see kira to tell her about him.