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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Harpercollins
Publication date November 1, 2002
Pages 231
Binding Library
Book category Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13 9780060294120
ISBN-10 0060294124
Dimensions 1 by 6 by 8.50 in.
Weight 0.90 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $17.89
Other format details juvenile
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a group of children are delighted to discover a colony of adult survivors in a Florida shopping mall, but soon find that they are not as friendly as they appear.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:

Cory put her hands to her face. She was covered with layers of gauze, and she tore at it, layer after layer shedding in her hands as she hurried onward.

The rocks in the path were bones and grinning skulls. This was what she had been stumbling over, and what her dress had been catching on. Panicked, she looked up.

Five years after a deadly plague killed all the Grown-ups, the world's population has nearly vanished. Civilization is gone, and the children who outlived their parents have mostly perished of hunger or disease. But ten children survived, and have forged a new family, a new life, and together traveled up the coast of Florida, searching for answers.

To their shock, they've found a group of adults, the only Grown-ups they've seen for years, living in an abandoned shopping mall. The Grown-ups seem delighted to see the children, and welcome them to the brave new world they've made for themselves -- a place with comforts the family had forgotten: cupcakes, clean clothes, adults to depend on.

But something is terribly wrong. This friendly community is not what it appears. Can they find out the truth -- before it's too late?

In this second book of the Fire-us Trilogy, Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher return to the post-apocalyptic world they created in The Kindling, as the family searches for the dark truth at the heart of the Fire-us.

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780060080495
 
With Nancy Butcher | from Harpercollins Childrens Books (November 1, 2002); titled "The Keepers of the Flame"
9780060080495 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.85 lbs | List price $15.99
About: After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a group of children are delighted to discover a colony of adult survivors in a Florida shopping mall but soon find that they are not as friendly as they appear.
Paperback
With Nancy Butcher | 1 reprint edition from Eos (October 1, 2003); titled "The Keepers of the Flame"
9780064472708 | details & prices | 272 pages | 3.50 × 6.75 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.30 lbs | List price $5.99
About: After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a group of children are delighted to discover a colony of adult survivors in a Florida shopping mall but soon find that they are not as friendly as they appear.
Library
Book cover for 9780060294120
 
The price comparison is for this edition
With Nancy Butcher | from Harpercollins (November 1, 2002); titled "The Keepers of the Flame"
9780060294120 | details & prices | 231 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.90 lbs | List price $17.89
About: After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a group of children are delighted to discover a colony of adult survivors in a Florida shopping mall but soon find that they are not as friendly as they appear.
Prebinding
from Turtleback Books (December 1, 2003)
9780613672054 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.45 lbs | List price $14.65
About: After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a group of children are delighted to discover a colony of adult survivors in a Florida shopping mall but soon find that they are not as friendly as they appear.

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