Susannah of Coppermopolis

The citizens of the United Caves Society have lived below earth's ground for three generations. The world above the cave ceilings became uninhabitable. All plant and animal life perished as the ancestors of the cave people moved underground to live in artificial light, engineered seasons, and a new and just society in order to survive in this new world of stone.

Susannah, a twelve-year-old student of Steadman Middle School, longs for the world above. She loves to hear the ancestral stories h...