The City of Ember (The Ember Series, #1)
by:
Jeanne DuPrau (author)
Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all - the lights are failing. Soon Ember...
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Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all - the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness-But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385606875 (0385606877)
Publish date: January 1st 2004
Publisher: Doubleday Childrens
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
Series: Book of Ember (#1)
There is nothing exactly new here, just par with the genre, but I quite liked it for being a lot less bloodthirsty than usual. It was cute, and hopeful. There is much about life finding a way (the pea and the worm were beautiful, illustrative allegories), about greed, and how having and hoarding, ...
Lina and Doon live in the City of Ember. They know that the city is running low on resources and that all light will eventually burn out. Lina and Doon go on an adventure and figure out how to fix everything. The only problem is that no one will listen to them. Will Lina and Doon end up saving their...
This book starts out with the builders leaving a box with all the mayors so when the time is right the correct mayor will get the important information to save the city, but that changed when one took the box and died before putting it back. Lina, the main character and Doon are now old enough to ge...
This book starts out with the builders leaving a box with all the mayors so when the time is right the correct mayor will get the important information to save the city, but that changed when one took the box and died before putting it back. Lina, the main character and Doon are now old enough to ge...
A Post-Apocalyptic MG book that refused to disappear into the back of my brain. Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spr...
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