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1) Wool
Author
Series
Language
English
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In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't. These are the dangerous ones; these are the people who dare to hope and dream, and who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple and deadly. They are...
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City, where he joins forces with Princess Lexa and Ripred the rat to defend the Underlanders and the Nibblers from the army led by the adolescent rat king, the Bane.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 5
Language
English
Description
Everyone has been trying to keep Gregor from seeing "The Prophecy of Time". That is because the final prophecy calls for the warrior's death. With an army of rats quickly approaching and time running out, Gregor must defend Regalia and get his family back home safely. There is a code that must be cracked, or all will be lost. It is a war designed to end all wars. The fates of the Underland and the great warrior, Gregor the Overlander, masterfully...
5) Dust
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
6) Closer
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 4
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.
8) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.
10) Terminal
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 6
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all human and Styx life"--
11) Tunnels
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
12) Caída libre
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
Español
Description
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld. Gregor is summoned back to the Underland by the terms of a second prophecy. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. Recognizable...
14) First light
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
15) Deeper
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
As young archaeologist Will Burrows continues to search for his lost father in the strange underground world he has discovered beneath the city of London, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
16) Profundidades
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
Español
Description
As Will Burrows continues to search for his lost archaeologist father in the strange underground world he has discovered, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
17) Túneles
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 1
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
Español
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
Will tiene una afición muy extraña para un chico de catorce años: pasa su tiempo excavando, buscando tesoros perdidos en las entrañas de la tierra. Así descubre que,...
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
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Gregor tiene 11 aǫs y vive en la ciudad de Nueva York. Un caluroso da̕ de verano, ľ y su hermana pequeą caen accidentalmente por una reja de ventilacin̤ en la lavandera̕ de su edificio. Y aqu e̕mpieza su aventura. De repente, llegarǹ a un mundo absolutamente tenebroso y desconocido para ellos: las Tierras Bajas, un mundo dn̤de humanos de piel pl̀ida y translc͠ida, conviven con escarabajos y murciľagos. Una sociedad amenazada por el conflicto...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe...
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