The release date for the English version of 'The City of Ember' by
Jeanne DuPrau is Jan 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
There's another cover version available here.
The Builders built the city of Ember many hundreds of years ago with everything a person could ever require. It succeeded.However, food is running low in the storerooms, crops are stunted, corruption is sweeping the city, and worst of all, the lights are going out. Ember could soon be enveloped in shadows.
However, two kids named Lina and Doon start to question if there could be a way out of Ember after finding pieces of an old paper. Can they interpret the ancient texts and discover a fresh future for all of them? Will they be heard by the Ember people?