The People of Sparks

Author: Jeanne DuPrau
AR Level: 4.9 (11 points)
Lexile: 760

A Brief Word From Your Teacher: This is the second book in The City of Ember series.  I recommend this book to kids who like survival stories about kids going on adventures.  The City of Ember (the first book in the series) is about a group of people who have survived for many years living under ground after the world above them was thought to be destroyed.  The People of Sparks is about what happens to these people after they discover they are not the only people still in existence.

I recently created a study guide to this novel, because after my high ability 4th graders read the first book in the series they urged me to let them read the sequel.  They love these books.  I recommend this book to 4th-6th graders.  There are a couple of violent moments as the characters in the book decide whether or not they need to fight a war, so if your family does not allow you to read books that discuss war and violence, this is not the book for you.

Grade: A