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Pages: 31, Paperback, Learning Links

Edition: Unabridged, Audio CD, Listening Library (Audio)

Release Date: 2012-03-20, Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

Pages: 270, School & Library Binding, Turtleback

Pages: 270, Edition: 1st, Paperback, Yearling

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever.

For generations, the people of the city of ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But ember s once powerful generator is failing ... And the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.

Pages: 44, Paperback, Novel Units, Inc.

Monster House director Gil Kenan takes the helm for this children's fantasy about two young heroes who attempt to solve an ancient mystery in time to prevent their underground city from being swallowed by darkness. The City of Ember was built over 200 year ago deep below the earth where the destruction of a mass-scale disaster couldn't reach it. Equipped with a massive generator and vast supplies the people of Ember have thrived happily for generations -- but the city wasn't meant to be lived in...

Features include: -MPAA Rating: PG -Format: DVD-Runtime: 90 minutes

A heart-thumping, edge-of-your-seat adventure comes to light in this exhilarating family film based on the best-selling novel by Jeanne Duprau. For centuries, the residents of the underground "City Of Ember" have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the city's massive power generator begins to fail, the street lamps start to fade - along with the hopes and dreams of the townspeople. Now it's up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left...

Ember is a city built to last 200 years. The Builders of this city left instructions to the mayors in a box that would open by itself, unfortunately, one of the mayors was corrupt, and tossed the box into a closet, to be forgotten about for centuries. The year is 241. Lina Mayfleet, and Doon Harrow are two children in Ember that find themselves on a mission to save their dying city. For the citys lights are beginning to flicker, and the food supplies are running out. Doon lands a job in the Pipeworks...

Description: It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost, and with it the idea of a Moveable Light. "Besides," they tell each other, "there is nowhere but here" Among the many other things the people...

In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

Agent Cody Banks/City of Ember

In The Day the Earth Stood Still , a modern-day remake of a classic 1951 science-fiction film in which an intergalactic emissary arrives on earth with a warning for earth's leaders, director Scott Derrickson charged visual effects supervisor Jeffrey Okun with updating the film's core effects while still paying homage to the original. Weta Digital, Cinesite, Flash Film Works and CosFX, along with a handful of supporting vendors, were enlisted to put a new spin on such iconic elements as the alien...

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