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The City of Ember — Jeanne DuPrau
Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

The City of Ember

a novel by Jeanne DuPrau
Ember is a city with no sun and no stars — a windowless world built underground, lit by floodlights strung above its streets and fed by a generator that no one alive fully understands. The storerooms are running low, the blackouts are lasting longer, and the Mayor keeps insisting that everything is under control. On Assignment Day, twelve-year-olds Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow are handed their adult jobs — Lina running messages through the crowded streets, Doon working the dripping tunnels of the Pipeworks below — and when a damaged document left behind by the city’s founders comes into Lina’s hands, the two begin piecing the ruined lines back together and wondering whether there might be a way out. Jeanne DuPrau’s first Book of Ember is a tense, tightly built mystery about failing systems, official secrecy, and two children stubborn enough to keep asking questions. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel, with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT & TOEFL-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.
Level 5Books of Ember #1Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based
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Level 5 · Strong ReadersUS Grade 5–7Lexile 680LAR (ATOS) 5.0 · Books of Ember #1
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Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🔌 Infrastructure & City Systems
What keeps a city alive: a generator and the underground river that drives it, the electrical grid behind every floodlight, the pipes and tunnels that move water, and the arithmetic of storerooms and rationing when supplies run short.
SUPPORTING
📚 How Knowledge Is Lost
Ember’s founders left instructions, and generations later almost no one can read them — how skills, records, and understanding fade when they are not taught, written down, or carefully kept.
SUPPORTING
💡 Light Against Darkness
Artificial light as a lifeline — floodlights, candles, and a lamp you have to carry — and darkness as both a physical problem and the novel’s central image.
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Progress
PT1
Part 1 · The Instructions & Chapters 1–2
Assignment Day in Ember • Lina and Doon Trade Jobs • Messenger Streets and the Pipeworks
VocabularyComprehensionLiterary ElementsThink DeeperStandardized TestWriting
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PT2
Part 2 · Chapters 3–5
Carrying Messages • Clary’s Greenhouses and a Bean Seed • Doon and the Generator
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PT3
Part 3 · Chapters 6–7
A Box at the Back of a Closet • Torn and Chewed Pages • Lina Asks Doon for Help
VocabularyComprehensionLiterary ElementsThink DeeperStandardized TestWriting
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PT4
Part 4 · Chapters 8–10
Loss at Home • Mrs. Murdo Steps In • A Locked Room in the Pipeworks
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PT5
Part 5 · Chapters 11–12
Piecing the Document Together • What the Builders Left Behind • Deciding Whom to Tell
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PT6
Part 6 · Chapters 13–15
Posters and Pursuit • The Singing • The Longest Blackout Yet
VocabularyComprehensionLiterary ElementsThink DeeperStandardized TestWriting
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PT7
Part 7 · Chapters 16–17
Beyond the Pipeworks • Where the Water Ends • Following the Path Upward
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PT8
Part 8 · Chapters 18–20
A Book Found in the Dark • Questions About Ember’s Beginnings • A Message for Those Left Behind
VocabularyComprehensionLiterary ElementsThink DeeperStandardized TestWritingReport Card
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