Currently Reading The City of Ember By Jeanne Duprau see related

Okay, I was wrong! Those of you who have heard me talk about the amazing City of Ember/People of Sparks series by Jeanne DuPrau know that I have been predicting the title of the third book. I theorized that since the first book was ember and the second one sparks that the third HAD to be something with fire or flames in the title. Wrong!

The new book will be called The Prophet of Yonwood and it is set to come out on May 9th. I'm not sure I can wait that long! Why do good new books always seem to take forever? Don't even get me started on waiting for the last Harry Potter.

Anyway....here's what Amazon.com has to say about the new Ember book:

"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."

A-ha! The new book is a prequel! We will finally find out (perhaps) why the people living in Ember had to go there . How cool. I will miss Doon and Lina, though. Maybe the next Ember book will be forward in time from People of Sparks and just maybe my title prediction will come true.