Reading level the green ember generator#
Reading level the green ember series#

How long will the electric generator last? Power cuts have become common, when the whole city is plunged into complete darkness. Ember, however, is not quite the safe haven it once was.

Beyond Ember, darkness goes on in all directions. The city is lit by powerful electric lights, but the rest of the world is dark. The story then shifts forward to the people who live in Ember, after the box has quietly opened. While the Mayors do not know the contents of the box they are told to keep it safe over the years and to not tell anyone else about it. The box is entrusted to the Mayors of Ember, who each pass it down to the successive Mayor as they take office. They leave instructions for the citizens in a special sealed box which will open automatically after 200 years when it should be safe to leave the city. Two of the Builders discuss what will happen when supplies run low and conditions become bad.

The story begins after the construction of the city of Ember. The film was released on October 10, 2008, and it was later released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. A film adaptation of the novel, titled City of Ember, was produced by Walden Media and Playtone, with Saoirse Ronan as Lina, Harry Treadaway as Doon, and Bill Murray as the mayor. It also spent several weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. It received several awards, including the 2006 Mark Twain Award, and was one of the recipients of the 2004 American Library Association Notable Book award. Chronologically, it is the second book in the series.

Reading level the green ember series#

The novel is the first in the publication order of The Books of Ember series, with the next book to be published in the series being The People of Sparks. The other two, The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner, and The Black Star of Kingston, should be read after reading Green Ember.įor those of us with voracious readers, it is quite the blessing to find a fantastic and enormous – more than 2,000 pages in all! – series like Green Ember.The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, written by Jeanne DuPrau, and published in 2003. With that backstory, kids can start with this smaller, action-packed volume. The Last Archer and its sequels, The First Fowler and The Archer’s Cup, could serve as a good intro to the whole Green Ember series, because they stand on their own, and were a little simpler to follow for my own young listeners (ages 5-9). That’s out of order, but all the kids would have to know is that the rabbits are preparing for an enemy, and most rabbits are suspicious of the Longtreader family, because one of them had been a traitor…though the rest never were. There are three full-size sequels – Ember Falls, Ember Rising, and Ember’s End – as well as five small books that occur in the same rabbit world, but follow different characters. It’s this depth that makes this more than just a rollicking tale of rabbits in peril. Smith’s Christian worldview comes through in passages like this, that parallel the way we can recall a perfect past, and look forward to a perfected future. Though God is never mentioned, and the rabbits have no religious observance of any kind, author S.D. A window into the past and the future world. We make crutches and soups and have gardens and weddings and babies. …we anticipate the Mended Wood, the Great Wood healed…. Or as one of the wisest of these rabbits puts it, Their former and peaceful realm fell to the wolves after it was betrayed from within, so now these rabbits in exile look forward to a time when the Great Wood will be restored.

They escape to a community that is hidden away from the ravaging wolves, and made up of exiled rabbits that once lived in the Great Wood. It isn’t clear if mom, dad and baby Jack are dead…but it seems like that might well be, and that could be a bit much for the very young (I’m planning on skipping over that bit when I get to it with my preschool daughters). It’s this last detail that might warrant some caution as to how appropriate this would be for the very young. The story begins with siblings Pickett and Heather being torn from the only home they’ve known, pursued by wolves, and separated from their parents and baby brother. This is children’s fiction, intended for preteens and early teens, so naturally, the heroes are children too. “Rabbits with swords” – it’s an irresistible combination, and all I had to say to get my two oldest daughters to beg me to start reading.Īs you might expect of a sword epic, this has a feudal feel, with rabbit lords and ladies, and noble rabbit knights and, of course, villainous wolves.