The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau, 2003
In a city with no sky, two twelve-year-olds are handed jobs they didn't ask for and start asking why the lights keep going out.
Jeanne DuPrau
DuPrau worked for years as a teacher and an educational editor before The City of Ember, her first book for young readers, appeared in 2003.
Feels like dread, wonder and freedom.
A city lit entirely by lamps, and the dark it can't explain.
In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark. The only light came from great floodlamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. When the lights were on, they cast a yellowish glow over the streets; people walking by threw long shadows that shortened and then stretched out again. When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds. Books by Jeanne DuPrau
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