The People of Sparks (City of Ember Book 2)

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Lina and Doon are returning to the city of Ember, but what awaits them in the dark? This highly acclaimed adventure series is a modern-day classic—with over 4 MILLION copies sold! A pesar de que me encanta el romance en los libros me parece que mientras una historia posea estas dos características es un libro que vale la pena leer. The City of Ember is an engaging children's fiction novel that introduces young readers to courageous characters who take steps to make change happen. The author Jeanne DuPrau writes age-appropriate fantasy/dystopia with mystery, action, adventure, and an exciting cliffhanger that keeps kids interested in the series. My son absolutely LOVES this book! Loves it so much he doesn't want to watch the film adaption for fear of ruining his reading experience (he has learned this lesson early in life LOL). As soon as he finished reading his library copy, he took his allowance money to buy the book so he can own it (I'm SOOOOO proud!). I read this book along with him and I have to say it was pretty good! If you have a young person in your care that needs some reading recommendations, offer this title for them to consider! It is the first of four books so it should keep readers busy for a while. The apartment itself also has the one thing no other building in the city has; a functional roof. A scene later in the film, which second unit will be shooting part of later today when Saoirse and Harry trade places, calls for Doon to climb out of the apartment onto the ledge of the roof to get away from the city guards. Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and led their people to the town of Sparks. But it’s winter now, and the harsh realities of their new world have begun to set in. When Doon finds a book that hints at an important, long-lost device, it doesn’t take much for him to convince Lina to join him for one last adventure in the place they used to call home. But will this mysterious technology be enough to help their people? And what— and who—will they find when they return?

Just when the future looks bright for the people of Ember, a new darkness lurks. This highly acclaimed adventure series is a modern-day classic—with over 4 MILLION copies sold! Though it is not as plot driven as Ember, I found this a thought-provoking read about the future, the past, the nature of conflict, and the road to peace. The main new dynamic in the book acted as a commentary on the interactions between people in strained situations and the passions which lead to prejudice, anger, and eventually to war. The plot separated for a time the two main characters from Ember, Lina and Doon.

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I found a lot of the build-up of conflict (to set the stage for the peace message) between the People of Ember and People of Sparks pretty dull. Still, it's decent for fans who want more of Lina and Doon--and it provides some mind-flipping concepts for the upper elementary set, which is fun.

In the English system you start by learning architecture. Actually you’re first job is making tea. English art departments are regimented by how you’re supposed to make the tea, based on colors charts. You use different shades to tell which teas everyone wants. It’s hell,” he laughs. “Then you work your way up to assistant where you have to learn to do the drawing and set design and all that kind of stuff. But it does give you a good grounding so that when you do become a production designer you know what all the different disciplines are. And occasionally I make the tea.” The message was a bit heavy-handed, but I will forgive that. I think sometimes it is easy, as an adult, to say that a message is heavy-handed, but something like this can be mind-blowing to a kid who may be encountering these ideas for the first time. You can never go wrong with teaching love and acceptance and understanding and showing that there is always an opportunity to do good wherever we are.

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Lina and Doon had planned to reveal Ember’s exit instructions and the mayor’s lies at Singing, an annual event where citizens gather to sing the city’s three great songs. But as they hide from the guards in Ember School, they decide instead to exit the city that day after leaving a message with Clary so that their fellow citizens can do the same.

Because this is a dystopian series, it is repeated that the modern world was destroyed in some sort of disaster many years ago. Lina learns that the Disaster was a combination of events: several plagues and then some wars caused by leaders of the separate nations. Lina and Doon escape with Poppy by boat and, after reaching the river’s end, see a sign from the Builders, welcoming refugees from Ember. They then ascend a steep passage that emerges into a vast wilderness lit with moonlight and other natural wonders they have never before seen. As Lina and Doon read a journal left near the river’s end by one of Ember’s first inhabitants, they can finally make full sense of Ember’s mystery: The Builders, a group of concerned scientists and engineers, created the city as an underground refuge for humans, believing the earth was in great peril at the time. Now, centuries later, Lina and Doon feel unsure if anyone is still alive on the surface. Peters, John (May 2003). "City of Ember (Book)". School Library Journal. 49 (5): 150. ISSN 0362-8930. The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic primary-to-middle-grade science fiction novel by Jeanne DuPrau that was published in 2003. The story is about Ember, a city threatened by aging infrastructure. The young protagonist, Lina Mayfleet, and her friend, Doon Harrow (the second protagonist), follow clues left behind by the original builders of the City of Ember, to safety in the outside world.The one quadrant that isn’t connected to the others is the one we’ve been brought to, and not just because of the green screen, but also because of all the water being used in it. This is the generator set. Everyone’s been describing it as the heart of the city, and it turns out they mean it literally. “This is the heart of Ember, the generator that pumps not so well, in the same way that a 200-year-old heart would be beginning to fail. It’s actually going to have the feel of a beating of the heart when they come down here and start their journey to the top where they go into the Emergency Control Room, there’s lots pistons that are actually pumping in the same rhythm that a heart would do as well. It’s actually going to be supported by scaffolding, the way you’d put a shunt into a heart to keep it alive, here they’re trying whatever they can.” I wish this didn't preach quite so much, but I will read the last book in the trilogy because I want to see where it goes. I loved some of the new characters (like Maddy) and loathed some others (which was intended by the author), and of course still loved Lina and Doon. I thought the author did a good job developing our two main characters as they interacted with the new world. They were still themselves as well as retaining realistic teenage characteristics, but grew and changed into better people. There were actually fairly few characters who didn't grow and change in some way, even if some individuals grew less than others. The pipe set itself is almost like a second city. It starts at the Pipe Works entrance on Doon’s street in Garden Square, and from there it snakes around all the different corners and empty areas of the soundstage, even going underneath some of the higher levels (such Lina’s street) just like the real pipe works would.