Jeanne DuPrau, Author . Random $15.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-82273-5
In her electric debut, DuPrau imagines a post-apocalyptic underground world where resources are running out. The city of Ember, "the only light in the dark world," began as a survival experiment created by the "Builders" who wanted...
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Jeanne DuPrau, Author . Random $15.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-82824-9
At the end of The City of Ember
, DuPrau's spellbinding debut, Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow, having made it safely out of their underground city, toss a message down through a chasm. This ambitious sequel opens as a boy, Torren, spies the...
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Jeanne DuPrau, Author . Random $5.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-82825-6
In this ambitious sequel to The City of Ember
, "DuPrau offers a thought-provoking novel about brinkmanship and the way societies can plant the insidious seeds of war," according to PW
. Ages 8-up. (Apr.)
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Jeanne DuPrau, Author Greenwillow Books $15.99 (274p) ISBN 978-0-06-073672-9
Like the '49ers before him, 17-year-old Duff Pringle leaves his East Coast home to seek his fortune in California. Obsessed with computer programming, he's been hired, sight unseen, by a Silicon Valley start-up. His $625 car doesn't even make it to...
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Jeanne DuPrau, Author. Random House Children's Books $16.99 (304p) ISBN 9780440421245
This third book in DuPrau's series is billed as a prequel to the first two (The City of Ember
and The People of Sparks
), but the connection is tenuous. Eleven-year-old Nickie Randolph wants "to do something helpful for the world," which is on the...
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Book Wish Foundation. Putnam, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3
Short stories that revolve around wishes form this volume created to raise money for Book Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to build libraries for Darfur refugees living in Chad. Mixing poems, stories, and even a comic, the book...
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Jeanne DuPrau. Random House, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-64380-8
Centuries after the Sudden Fall, during which governments across the globe forbade the use of fossil fuels, humankind has adopted a more eco-friendly way of living based on rejecting electricity in favor of renewable resources. As a result, most...
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