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The novel follows 11‑year‑old Nickie and her aunt as they journey to the small town of Yonwood in 1995, forty‑five years before the founding of Ember. A respected citizen there has a frightening vision of fire and destruction, which she recasts as prophecy. The townspeople scramble to interpret the garbled warnings, hoping they will enable the community to avoid an impending disaster. While piecing together her great‑grandfather’s journals and meeting an eccentric neighbor who studies the heavens, Nickie keeps a keen eye on her surroundings, searching for any way to help the world that is rapidly deteriorating.
Set thirty‑five years before the events of *The City of Ember*, the prequel shows how hope can be found in unlikely places when society teeters on the brink of catastrophe.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Jeanne DuPrau
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