If you haven't heard of jeanne DuPrau's "Books of Ember" series, you will in the next few months. "Ember" is set in an underground city that's home to the 100 or so people who survived what's ominously but vaguely called The Disaster. The city is stocked with light bulbs, clothes and canned goods, but when the power fails and the mayor starts hoarding the food (Bill Murray plays him in the upcoming movie), two tweens figure out how to escape to the aboveground world. In "The Diamond of Darkhold"-the series' fourth volume, due out on Aug. 26-the survivors find themselves in a town called Sparks. The Ember refugees discover a few hundred humans (and a fox) living in a kind of postnuclear winter, and they all have to figure out how to survive again-it's like an apocalypse inside an apocalypse. Sounds like a nice, dark shadow to cast over your summer beach reading, doesn't it? Even sunnier: the "Ember" books are written for kids, ages 9 to 12.
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机译：如果您还没有听说过珍妮·杜普劳（Jeanne DuPrau）的“灰烬之书”系列，那么您将在接下来的几个月中。 “灰烬”设在一个地下城市，那里有大约100名幸存者，这些幸存者在不祥但模糊的灾难中幸存下来。这座城市里到处都是灯泡，衣服和罐头食品，但是当电力中断并且市长开始ho积食物时（比尔·默里在即将上映的电影中扮演他），两个补间正在弄清楚如何逃离地上世界。幸存者在8月26日发行的《黑暗之地的钻石》（Diamond of Darkhold）中，幸存者发现自己在一个名为Sparks的小镇。灰烬难民发现数百人（和一只狐狸）生活在一个核后的冬天，他们都必须弄清楚如何再次生存-就像启示录中的启示录一样。听起来像是一个不错的黑色阴影，笼罩着您的夏日海滩读书，不是吗？更加阳光明媚：“ Ember”书籍是为9至12岁的儿童编写的。
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