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GECDSB
Think Literacy Student Success Initiative |
| GENRES | ADVENTURE,
FANTASY |
REQUIRED READING ABILITY:
Average SUMMARY: One day during summer vacation, Gregor is home taking care of his two-year-old sister, Boots, and his senile grandmother. Boots goes missing in the laundry room, and when Gregor searches for her, he is just in time to see her disappear through a missing grate in the wall. Gregor goes tumbling into the depths after her, and the two of them end up in a mysterious, subterranean world where giant bugs, bats, and a whole other culture of humans has existed for centuries. Boots is accepted as a princess
by the bugs, who appreciate her malodorous two-year-old nature, and this
results in them surviving long enough to be taken to the higher authorities.
When he meets the humans in this world, it soon becomes apparent that
Gregor is not the first person to arrive from the “Overland.”
He is immediately caught up in an adventure where his success, and his
very survival, will depend on his ability to adapt. This becomes even
harder when he is recognized as a potential answer to a prophecy made
years earlier by the founders of the civilization, and he has no choice
but to follow along. He and Boots, as well as his new allies (some bats,
some bugs, some very talented humans, and a large, battle scarred rat)
set out on a quest to save the Underland…and in doing so, to rescue
the man who just might be their missing father as well… WHO WOULD LOVE THIS BOOK? A kid who...
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