Lindsey's Library

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Lina Mayfield and her friend Doon Harrow are about to graduate from school and get their lifelong jobs. Everything seems normal until Doon throws the job he’s plucked from the bag onto the floor, and in a heated rage complains about the dilapidating state of the city of Ember, their home. Soon, though, it becomes apparent that Ember is a city different than any other city known on earth. The Builders have made a self-sufficient city underground as an experiment in order to save humanity in case the world above becomes completely destroyed. …