The Prophet of Yonwood is the prequel of The City of Ember and The People of Sparks. During the month of July, two main things happened. The first was when Althea Tower, the prophet, had a vision of the future; There was going to be a war in Yonwood. The second thing that happened was Nicole [Nickie] Randolph’s visit to Yonwood. She had three goals that she hoped to accomplish there. Goal #1 was: To live in GreenHaven, her great grandfather’s house that her aunt, Crystal, was planning to sell. Goal #2 was: To fall in love or experience romance. Her third goal was to help the world somehow, no matter how hard or easy it is. So Nickie met Mrs. Beeson, a Yonwood citizen to wanted to stop the world by putting on endless, high-pitched beepers on people who did wrong things. Nickie decided to help her and look out for people who did wrong, but she ended up turning in people who where innocent. Mrs. Beeson did these things becaused she believed in God very much. Althea Tower became ill after the horrible vision of the future and lately she had been mumbling things such as, ” No sinnies” , ” No lights” or, ” No words”. Which led to to Mrs. Beeson believing she said ‘No sinners’, ‘No lights’ and ‘No curse words’. So whoever was a sinner, whoever turned on their lights, whoever said curse words, and whoever did other things the Prophet had said, Mrs. Beeson would stick a beeping bracelet on their wrists and that beeping would never stop until you stopped doing the wrong things. Nickie was involved in all of this until one day, Althea mumbled, “No dogs.” The first day Nickie visited GreenHaven, she met a dog, Otis, and she loved him a lot and when she heard this, she was frightened and furious. The day Mrs.Beeson took Otis away, she wanted to go home and never come back. Then, one afternoon, Nickie met the Prophet. She asked her so many questioned to why she said those things. Please read this to find the answers to Nicole’s questions and to find out how her goals were accomplished. I recommend this all children and I hope you learn that accomplishing a goal isn’t easy and it takes time. The middle of the book might be a little dry, but once you read a few more chapters, it’ll become interesting. And remember, this is the prequel to The City of Ember and to The People of Sparks. Enjoy!

Kelly H.