a review of prophet of yonwood by M.A.Channon

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	• The Prophet of Yonwood (Books of Ember) Jeanne Duprau Yearling, 2007 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 69 reviews view larger image
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a review of prophet of yonwood by M.A.Channon

The third Book of Ember is out! Prophet of Yonwood is a prequel to The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. It explains how everybody wound up in an underground city in the first place.
Prophet of Yonwood starts with the story of eleven-year-old Nickie goes down to Yonwood with her Aunt Crystal who, along with Nickie's mother, inherited Greenhaven, Nickie's Great-Grandfather's house. They are going to fix up the house to sell. Nickie wants to keep the hose, not sell it, so she draws up a to-do list. She must keep Greenhaven, fall in love and do something to help as it badly needed it. The U.S. and the Phalanx Nations are pretty much arguing but people are worried that this could lead to war. Nickie spends a lot of time alone in the gigantic house because Crystal is often out running errands. Nickie goes exploring around the house and finds an old photograph of the first Siamese twins Chang and Eng. She also finds a closet and in it she finds a seventeen-year-old named Amanda and her dog Otis. Amanda tells Nickie about Yonwood starting with Althea Tower's fiery vision. Althea went into her backyard when her vision hit her in the head like a speeding train she fell over and beheld the sight of a world burning in destruction. Althea has since been staying in bed. Her neighbor, Brenda Beeson, has been taking note of Althea's mumblings so as to take action. She believes that Althea's vision is a glimpse into the future, which could be coming soon what with the conflicts with the Phalanx Nations. Allegedly, whatever Althea says must be done in order to prevent her vision from becoming a reality, such as when she muttered "no singing" and all radios Cud's and such were all done away with and those who failed to comply would be punished with an indestructible bracelet hums constantly, people go crazy over it. Amanda becomes Althea's live-in caretaker and decides to leave Otis in Nickie's care. Nickie meets Brenda and, in an attempt to accomplish her goal to help the world, she help Brenda find wrongdoing so that they can "build a shield of goodness" as Brenda said. Nickie finds a boy who keeps snakes in his shed and informs Brenda of him. Nickie also meets a boy her age named Grover, he is interested in herpetology, she then realizes that he is the boy she told Brenda about. They become friends, but one day Grover is ambushed with a bracelet so he goes out in the woods to hide. Nickie feels ashamed of herself and asks Crystal about the difference between right and wrong and realizes that Brenda is wrong. Nickie then goes to the Althea's house and yells at her asking wht=y she said all of the things she said, Athea "wakes up" and then aks what has been going on, Nickie tells Althea about all of the things that have been happening since her vision and Althea explains to Nickie that she was descrin=bing her vision which kept coming back to her. In her vision there were no lights no singing and no dancing. All the while Brenda misinterpreted Althea and had, instead preventing her vision, creating it.Out of frustration, Brenda decides to study theology at home to find out what god is really saying. Nickie goes home to the city and is greeted with the good news that she, Otis her Mother and Father will be moving to California. The couple that wanted to buy Greenhaven withdrew their offer and Crystal moved there with her new husband and had two children. The conflicts between the U.S. nd the Phalanx Nations were resolved but started up again many years later. A city was built underground and a select few were allowed into it. Nickie being the daughter of one of the builders was taken in, she was sixty years old. The city would be called Ember.
I like how this book was told from two different viewpoints. This wasy the reader gets to see in two different places with two different people. The reader also gets to hear two different sides of a similar story and two different opinions. Often in stories told in third person limited to one main character the reader only gets to hear one opinion which gets smusheed in your face as if to say "this is what you need to think!" but that was not the case in this book. I also think it's interesting to see both points of view when two people are making friends with each other because the reader to gets to see what they both think about each other and what they both thought of time spent together.
I alos liked how this book showed how people are affected even when conflict doesn't become war and how the situation affects everybody. When Crystal and Nickie wanted to take the train, they couldn't because it was shut down for security purposes and when they left the state they hat to be searched,
Another thing I liked about thi book was that it showed how information is misinterpreted so often, especially God's word. Everyone was convinced Althea was delivering God's word when realy, it was just her describing the glimpse of the horrible future. Of course part of the reason she was misinterpreted in the firest place was because there was international conflict, the people needed to believe that there was something they could do to protect themselves, because everyone was so on edge, few people considerd how unreasonable everything was.
My main reason for liking this book was that, in spite of all, there was a happy ending and Nickie got everything done on her to-do list. The people who were buying the hoyse withdrew to offer and Nickie went to visit her Aunt there in the sumrtime so she essentialy got to keep Greenhaven. She fell in love at Yonwood, not with a person but with Otis, her dog. She got to help the world because she sold her icture of Cheng and Eng and sent the money to Grover. He went to a herpetology gathering and this led him to his career in herpetology, and he went on to discover a powerful painkiller in snake venom.
I really like this book very much, I have already read it twice I would also recommend the redt of he series as it is very good as well.

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The Prophet of Yonwood

Out of the three books in this series this is probably the oddest one of them all. Jeanne Duprau does a excellent job of forming a picture in the readers head with descriptive ajectives. Before reading this book you want to read the first two books of the series because in the end of this book everything forms together like a puzzle and makes the reader stunned with disbeleif. The reason this book is ranked a four out of five is because if you would'nt've read the other two books in the series than you would dislike this book since nothing would make sense, but if you did read the other two books you'd love reading this book and enjoy it.

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