- Conduct of life, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Prophecies
It's 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember, and the world is in crisis. War looms on the horizon as 11-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and effortless.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jeanne DuPrau
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Gallimard jeunesse, Yearling, Random House Children's Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780739335840
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