Kids/YA book about underground society (early 2000s)
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1oldbeecharmer
I've been hunting down this book for almost ten years now and someone on Goodreads suggested posting here too, so here goes nothing!
Copypasting my first message from the GR thread, is it okay to link it here?
"There's a book I read as a kid, but I can't find anymore because I don't remember the title, nor the author. It was about an underground society (à la Ember, sort of) and a man from the outside world who somehow ended up there, showing them the existance of it. I remember that the protagonist was a little girl, her grandma was some kind of herbalist-doctor, her parents were dead and in a pauper grave, and she met the man from the above world near some kind of machine which had the purpose of reusing any sort of cloth left around, or at least it was something like that. I'm italian, so there may be different editions from the one I had, but the cover showed a manhole in the middle of a grass plain, and there was a blonde girl looking outside. People from the outside world were called "The Ones" and the outside world was "The Above-World", or at least that's the literal translation of what I recall. Anyone knows?"
Copypasting my first message from the GR thread, is it okay to link it here?
"There's a book I read as a kid, but I can't find anymore because I don't remember the title, nor the author. It was about an underground society (à la Ember, sort of) and a man from the outside world who somehow ended up there, showing them the existance of it. I remember that the protagonist was a little girl, her grandma was some kind of herbalist-doctor, her parents were dead and in a pauper grave, and she met the man from the above world near some kind of machine which had the purpose of reusing any sort of cloth left around, or at least it was something like that. I'm italian, so there may be different editions from the one I had, but the cover showed a manhole in the middle of a grass plain, and there was a blonde girl looking outside. People from the outside world were called "The Ones" and the outside world was "The Above-World", or at least that's the literal translation of what I recall. Anyone knows?"
3RosetheReader
>1 oldbeecharmer: I have no idea if this had an Italian translation, but it kind of sounds like A Face Like Glass. I haven't read it in a while though, so I could be misremembering.
