Jeanne Du Prau Books that she has written

Jeanne Du. Prau

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 11/6/2020 2

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 11/6/2020 3

• 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. 11/6/2020 4

Other Jobs she has done • She has been a teacher, an editor, and a technical writer 11/6/2020 5

• She lives in Menlo Park California where she keeps a big garden, a small puppy and also lives with her husband. 11/6/2020 6

• Jeanne Du. Prau wrote her first book at age 6. it was called Frosty the Snowman. The next books she wrote was when she was in the 7 th 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 11/6/2020 7

Pictures of Jeanne 11/6/2020 8

Jeanne and her family 11/6/2020 9

Pictures of Book Covers she has written 11/6/2020 10

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 11/6/2020 11 – Indiana – Nevada

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 7 th 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 grandmother’s 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. 11/6/2020 12

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. It’s 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? 11/6/2020 13

The Prophet of Yonwood • 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 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 woman’s mysterious vision, 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. 11/6/2020 14

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. 11/6/2020 15