Jeanne DuPrau

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Jeanne DuPrau
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Books that she has written

• She has written many books like The City Of
  Ember, The People of Sparks, The Prophet Of
  Yonwood, The Diamond Of Darkhold and Car Trouble

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Facts About Jeanne

• She was born January 1,1944
• She was born in San Francisco, California
• She is still living
• She is 66 years old

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• She spends several hours on her computer thinking
  up sentences. When she does think of a really
  good sentence she puts it on her quote wall. This
  gives her courage because she finds writing hard.
• She has written 4 novels, 6 non-fiction books and
  quite a few essays and stories.

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Other Jobs she has done

• She has been a teacher, an editor, and a
  technical writer

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• She lives in Menlo Park California where she
  keeps a big garden, a small puppy and also lives
  with her husband.

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• Jeanne DuPrau wrote her first book at age 6. it
  was called Frosty the Snowman. The next books she
  wrote was when she was in the 7th grade, they
  were about a mysterious merry-go-round that flies
  into the air, a girls who loves ice skating, and
  a sea shell that opens a magical door to a
  underwater world

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Pictures of Jeanne
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Jeanne and her family
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Pictures of Book Covers she has written
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Awards Jeanne has won for the city of Ember

• The city of Ember has won Jeanne many awards
  these include
• American Library Association Notable Book
• Kirkus 2003 Editor's Choice
• Publisher's Weekly Flying Start
• Borders Original Voices
• Several weeks on the New York Times Bestseller
  List (Children's Paperback Fiction)
• New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading
  and Sharing
• Child Magazine, Best Children's Books of 2003
• Winner for children's literature, California Book
  Awards, Commonwealth Club of California
• Chapman Award for Shared Reading
• State readers' choice award winner in
• Florida
• New Jersey
• Connecticut
• Utah
• Vermont
• Washington
• Kansas
• Indiana

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Summery of the City Of Ember

• The City Of Ember is about a girl who lives in a
  under ground city and the people who built the
  city had a box that was suppose to be have to the
  direction to find the way out to a better place.
  When the 7th mayor died the box went missing.
  They city is falling apart and there's nothing
  anyone can do but Lina Mayfleat and Doon Harrow
  step in to help. They are best friends. Lina
  finds the box in her grandmothers closet, but
  her little sister had tore it in to pieces and
  they have to put it together piece by piece. They
  need to figure out how to get out. The fate of
  the whole city is in their hands.

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The summary to the People Of Sparks

• The people of Ember have come to a new world,
  arriving with hardly more than the clothes on
  their backs. But the people in the village of
  Sparks are willing to help them or at least at
  first.
• This new world is strange to the people Ember.
  Its all most completely empty. There is no
  electricity. What is the Disaster the people of
  Sparks talk of? Gradually the people of Ember
  learn the answers to these questions. But the
  biggest question of all remains. Can they live
  with these people? Or are they heading for
  disaster again?

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The Prophet of Yonwood

• Its 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 towns 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 try to make sense of the
  womans mysterious vision, Nickie explores the
  oddities she finds around town her
  great-grandfathers 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.

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The Diamond of Darkhold

• It's been several months since Lina and Doon
  escaped the city of Ember and, along with the
  rest of their people, joined the town of Sparks.
  Life above ground is hard. The winter storms have
  been fierce. Supplies are running low. Accidents
  and disease have been happening a lot.
• It's during this dark time that Doon finds an
  unusual book. Torn up and missing most of its
  pages, it alludes to a mysterious device, a piece
  of technology from before the Disaster. Doon is
  sure that the Builders of Ember meant for the
  citizens to find this device when they left the
  city. Together, he and Lina must go back to their
  old home and retrieve what was lost.