The people of Sparks

ISBN: 9780375890505 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 0375890505 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 9780375890505 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
ISBN: 0375890505 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
ISBN: 9780375890505 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (338 p.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Random House, c2004.

Summary: Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn't long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. Having spent hundreds of years underground, the 400 survivors of Ember can't go back, but have no idea how to survive on the surface. Wandering for days, exhausted and hungry, they come across the village of Sparks. The people of this small village reluctantly agree to take in the refugees temporarily, just long enough to teach them to survive on their own. But food is tight, the Emberites don't seem to know anything, and the villagers soon begin to resent having to take care of them. As tensions mount a mysterious series of acts of vandalism heightens the anger on both sides, until conflict seems inevitable.