# The City of Ember

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- Book: [The City of Ember](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeanne-duprau/the-city-of-ember) ([The City of Ember.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeanne-duprau/the-city-of-ember.md))
- Authors: [Jeanne DuPrau](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeanne-duprau)
- Publisher: corgi_childrens
- ISBN: 978-05-5255-238-7
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2005-01-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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?