But Melody does have a photographic memory. Moving a little off the fantasy track comes Out of my Mind, a book like The City of Ember that takes place in a different underground city: the human mind. Holesis a great read for anyone (adult or child) who enjoyed The City of Ember.Īlready read this novel? Check out our list of more books like Holes! Want a change from paper books? - Get a 30-Day Free Trial of Audible to try out audio books or try out Kindle Unlimited so you can download unlimited ebooks! The important thing is learning to make the right choices amidst all of the challenges. Life can be hard and cruel, as well as magical. The lake has long since dried up, but there’s plenty of holes and the warden of the centre is looking for something buried underneath.Ĭleverly, Holesshows kids that you don’t always get rewarded for doing the right things. Sent to a boys’ detention centre at Camp Green Lake, he joins the other boys who spend all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. Holesweaves together past, present and ancient history as young Stanley Yelnats is tried and convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Some books like The City of Ember surprise you in their setting and format. Well worth a read if you enjoyed The City of Ember. Originally written as a short story, Wool has spawned 5 books and a TV series due to air in 2022. The story follows Holsten, and eventually Jules as they begin to wonder if all they are told about the outside is true. No one can go outside, unless you are sent to clean.Ĭleaning is a death sentence and is used by the mayor as punishment for crimes committed within the silo. A huge concrete city that goes down for hundreds of levels. Like The City of Ember, Wool is the story of an underground community, but unlike Ember they live in a silo. Wool debuted after The City of Ember was released, but is a similar tale. The Girl of Ink & Stars, by Kiran Millwood HargraveĨ Books like The City of Ember Wool, by Hugh Howeyīooks similiar to The City of Ember don’t just sit on YA or middle-grade reading shelves.Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi.Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson.When they are hunted by the major's hoodlums, they have to find the way out of Ember to survive and save the populations from the imminent darkness and the end of the city. They decide to explore the way out of the city and they discover that the corrupt major and his henchmen are stealing food from the population. Lina, who is the descendant of the seventh mayor, finds the box of instructions in the house of her grandmother and shows it to her friend Doon. On the Assignment Day, the teenagers Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow are assigned to work with the pipework and as messenger, but they swap their job positions. The power generator has problems and the blackouts are longer and more frequent and the city is running out of food that needs to be rationed. However, the instructions are lost and the inhabitants stay in the city that is completely deteriorated. They leave also instructions for the future generations to return to the surface of the planet in a steel box that should be kept by the mayors through the generations. At the end of mankind on Earth, scientists build a self-sufficient underground city for a few people in order to preserve the human race for two hundred years.
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