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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  emithomp | Nov 22, 2009 |  Prequel to [The City of Ember], Yonwood takes us to a pre-war world full of religious prophesy and tension. The third installment gave me a good appreciation for DuPrau’s ability to write children – a new set of characters are very different from the previous two books. (  ) janepriceestrada | Nov 16, 2009 | I read the City of Ember as my partner book. The book grabbed my attention and now I am hooked. 11 year old Nikkie and her Aunt Crystal travel to the city of Yonwood, North Carolina to sell the home of her great grandfather. Althea Tower a resident had a terrible vision of the future and has fallen ill. Mrs. Beeson considers her a prophet and has taken to interpreting Althea's words and how it can save their town. Nikkie who lives in Philadelphia wants to escape from that city and thinks that Yonwood is the answer to her prayers. Her father is away doing secret government work and her mother is miserable with her work. Through her experiences in Yonwood she undergoes a transformation and learns that things are not always what they seem. anncampbell | Nov 15, 2009 | this book was good, but not very addicting. I was wondering till the very end "what does this have to do with Ember?" (  ) neku104 | Oct 14, 2009 | The Prophet of Yonwood is a really great science fiction novel in the City of Ember series. It fits well within this genre because it addresses events in time that change the course of history. Unlike the previous two books in this series, this book takes the reader back in time to what the world was like before the Crisis. It shares with the reader how and why the City of Ember was created. It will also influence readers to think about how people's choices affect what happens in the world around them. More so than the first two books, The Prophet of Yonwood allows readers to make connections to the world we live in today. Finally, themes that were present in the first two books begin to surface in a much clearer way in this book. ( ) katitefft | Aug 18, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0440421241, Paperback)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. There, one of the town’s respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction. Her garbled words are taken as prophetic instruction on how to avoid the coming disaster. If only they can be interpreted correctly. . . .As the people of Yonwood scramble to make sense of the woman’s mysterious utterances, Nickie explores the oddities she finds around town—her great-grandfather’s peculiar journals and papers, a reclusive neighbor who studies the heavens, a strange boy who is fascinated with snakes—all while keeping an eye out for ways to help the world. Is this vision her chance? Or is it already too late to avoid a devastating war? In this prequel to the acclaimed The City of Ember and The People of Sparks, Jeanne DuPrau investigates how, in a world that seems out of control, hope and comfort can be found in the strangest of places. From the Hardcover edition. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Although published two years ago, this book resonates as particularly topical now. We all want to protect ourselves and our way of life, but we are not all in agreement as to how to do that. This book looks at what happens when an entire village lets its desperation overshadow reason. It has echoes in 1930s Germany and the rhetoric that comes from the extreme right wing demonstrators that make the evening news today. It also considers just how easy it is to be taken in because the first steps always seem so reasonable and logical. The book really makes the reader think critically about why a society chooses its rules.
This is the best of DuPrau's trilogy, and it should really be included in Middle School and Public Library collections. (