Acknowledgments
My gratitude to my patient agent, Nancy Gallt, my skilled editor, Jim Thomas, and my unfailingly supportive friend Susie Mader.
J
EANNE
D
U
P
RAU
has been a teacher, an editor, and a technical writer.
The People of Sparks
is her second novel and the sequel to the highly acclaimed
The City of Ember
. Ms. DuPrau lives in Menlo Park, California, where she keeps a big garden and a small dog.
Also by Jeanne DuPrau
THE CITY OF EMBER
Text copyright © 2004 by Jeanne DuPrau.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
DuPrau, Jeanne.
The people of Sparks / by Jeanne DuPrau. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
SUMMARY
: Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.
eISBN 0-375-89050-5
[1. Fantasy.] I. Title. PZ7.D927Pe 2004 [Fic]—dc22 2003020760
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