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loved everything about this middlegrade children's book, It is actually Suzanne Collins' very first novel, preHunger Games, It shares a lot with her more famous trilogy, Fast pacing. An ordinary kid forced by extraordinary circumstances into becoming a leader, a hero, Good good guys and bad bad guys, I already mentioned fast pacing, Gregor, an eleven year old boy and his two year old sister Boots get sucked from the laundry room in their NYC apt building into The Underland.
The Underland has regularish humans, along with giant bats, roaches, rats, and spiders, According to an Underland prophecy, Gregor is the one who will lead them in their battle against the rats, Gregor's only goal is to retrieve his father, who fell down the hole two plus years ago and is now the rats' prisoner, Adventure ensues.

There are lots of great characters in the story, The wise elders. The snooty queenintraining. The giant cockroaches, Tick and Temp, Yes, wonderful, loyal, sweet cockroaches, The giant rat Ripred. is he a spy, a traitor, should they trust him, do they have any choice I'll never tell, Of course there's Gregor, who learns the obligatory lessons about himself and the world around him, But best of all is Boots, She greets everything in her life with joy, She has no fear. No prejudices. She treats everyone equally, teaching just about everyone a thing or two, Bravo Boots.

I'm not sure why I didn't know about this middlegrade series, I loved The Hunger Games, Maybe because the target audience was a little younger there was less hype, All those teen girls who loved The Hunger Games probably think they're a little too old to enjoy this book, It's too bad. I think both boys and girls would love this adrenalinefilled story, Less mushy stuff than Hunger Games, just a straight out quest, It doesn't get any cooler, The story takes place in New York City, It is about anyear old boy named Gregor, He lives in an apartment with his family, He was sad because he couldn't go to summer camp and had to take care of his grandmother and sister, Gregor had to do the laundry and took his little sister, Boots, with him so that he can watch whatever she does, As Gregor was doing the laundry, Boots sees a ball and goes to it, She then fell into this vent and Gregor was worried and went in with her, Gregor was falling in what felt like a bottomless pit and he heard Boots's voice, It was really dark in that pit so he couldn't see Boots, Now he was really worried and he was scared that he would die, Then he suddenly touched the ground and surprisingly survived the fall, He saw Boots holding the ball and he was relieved that she survived too, They walk in this mysterious place and meet some cockroaches which were so big likex bigger than the cockroaches they normally saw, The cockroaches offered the "Queen" Boots a ride on his back and Gregor was confused why they called her queen, Then the cockroaches told Gregor to keep up with him and then the cockroach ran very fast that Gregor could barely keep up with him.
Then they arrive at this stadium with bats flying around in circle, This is when he meets Queen Luxa which is a very important character in the story, What I liked about the book was how he found out that his father was still alive, I recommend this book to agesand higher, It is a really good book and I really enjoyed reading it, Gregor the Overlander Underland Chronicles,, Suzanne Collins
The Underland Chronicles is a series of five epic fantasy novels by Suzanne Collins, first published betweenand.
It tells the story of a boy named Gregor and his adventures in the "Underland", a subterranean world located under New York City, The Underland is inhabited by humans who traveled below hundreds of years ago, along with various giant versions of creatures like bats, cockroaches, and rats.
According to the author, the series involves many topics relating to war, including biological warfare, genocide, and military intelligence, While not as well known as the author's subsequent Hunger Games trilogy, it has been reviewed favorably by many critics,
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عنوان: تاریخ اعماق زمین کتابسفر شگفت انگیز گریگور نویسنده: سوزان کالینز مترجم: عاطفه احمدی تهران ویدا چاپ اول و دومدرص شابک:چاپ سوم و چهارمموضوع: داستانهای علمی تخیلی از نویسندگان انگلیسی قرنم
نقل از متن: گریگور تکه ای یخ از فریزر برداشت آن را روی صورتش کشید و زل زد به حیاط سگ ولگردی دوروبر سطل زباله ای که تا کله پر بود بو میکشید. سگ پنجه هایش را روی لبۀ سطل گذاشته و کجش کرده بود و زباله ها را وسط پیاده رو میریخت. نگاه گریگور به چند شکل ایه مانند افتاد که با سرعت کنار دیوار وول میخوردند و اینطرف و آنطرف میرفتند موشها. او هیچ وقت درست و حسابی بهشان عادت نکرده بود. برخلاف همیشه اینبار هیچکس در حیاط نبود. بیشتر وقتها آنجا پر بود از بچه هایی که توپ بازی میکردند از روی طناب میپریدند یا روی میله های بازی کهنه تاب میخوردند اما امروز صبح همۀ بچه های چهار تا چهارده ساله با اتوبوسی به اردو رفته بودند همه به جز یک نفر. پایان نقل. ا. شربیانی So, my workplace and a few other firms are a part of this program where we got to a local elementary school to read to kids.
I was paired up with a fifth grader who loved to read as much as I did, She blew through Breadcrumbs, which was amazing, and we had just started on Gregor the Overlander Underland Chronicles,when school was dismissed for summer vacation.
Me being my usual ADHD self, I left this book unread for months and months while I pursued other books, Now, after reading the entire Underland Chronicles in three days, I am so glad I gave this a shot, Plot SummaryGregor is an eleven year old who lives with his mom, grandma, and younger sisters in New York City, His dad disappeared without a word two years ago, and his mom has been struggling to keep the family together since, One day, Gregor and his sister Boots are sucked down a grate in their laundry room, and find themselves in the Underland, a subterranean world populated by whitehaired, violeteyed humans, and oversized cockroaches, spiders, bats and rats.
Though all Gregor wants is to go home, he finds himself embroiled in a brewing war between the humans and rats, and perhaps a chance to find his father.
My ReactionsThe Underland was interesting, to say the least, I wasnt too convinced by this subterranean world until about two books in, Maybe its because I hatehatehatehatehate rodents and vermin, which is probably not the best attitude to take when living in New York City, Someone once told me about a sighting of a threefoot rat in Brooklyn, and my spidey senses were tingling whenever I entered a subway station for weeks after.
BTW, the antagonists are sixfoot tall rats, With their long, ridged tails and sharp teeth, Kind of like this:Some parts of the book, like the quest and resolution of the prophecy were quite predictable, But like in The Hunger Games has a way of brushing up against the brittleness of the real world without being melodramatic, What remains with me the most was not the questing or the Underland, but Gregor, After his father disappeared, Gregor continually makes sacrifices in the face of hard financial times, Here is an eleven year old who voluntarily gives up summer camp to take care of his baby sister Boots because his mom works nonstop to feed the family.
My heart aches for the little guy, who is forced to grow up much too quickly so that the rest of his siblings can enjoy their youths.
Not sure how well a fifth grader or even adult could relateI suppose it depends on the personbut as the oldest in my family, I certainly could.
Gregory continues to carry the heavy weight of responsibility with him to the Underland as he takes care of Boots, and that bit of realness threading through the story kept me interested and sympathetic until the end.
Overall, I really enjoyed this first book, and the following books are equally if not more fun to read, If you thought The Hunger Games The Hunger Games,was a feat in YA lit, Gregor the Overlander is definitely up there in the kid lit world.
Both are highly readable for both the younger folk and the adulty folk,.STARS AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, especially for younger readers, The covers of the sitelinkUnderland Chronicles do them no end of disservice, Since my policy is to judge a book by its cover, it took reading sitelinkThe Hunger Games to convince me to pick them up.
I had always assumed they would be machine generated chapter books with mythical creatures protecting or seeking some ring or sword, or who knows what, that has some symbolic meaning or doesn't.
sitelinkSuzanne Collins, however, is in no way machinegenerated, She is sitelinkDostoyevski for the youngreader crowd, While she uses the quest trope in each of the Underland stories, her reflections of politics and international history are both gentle and unflinchingly horrifying.
Kids have to learn about genocide somehow, . . I guess.

In comparison to other popular childsoldier or childrensavetheworld stories, the Underland Chronicles are not comforting in the way sitelinkHarry Potter and sitelinkTwilight are, nor are they as morallyoutraged and uncomfortable as sitelinkEnder's Game, but I found them more honest than all of those.
sitelinkCollins never seems overcome by her own power as an author, selfindulgent in her storytelling, or worried that her audience won't understand her overall message.
That may be the mark of a good editing team, and if so, A to them, Her writing is not as lyrically beautiful as Kate DiCamillo's whose is, for that matter, but, like Dostoyevski's, it is very effective in reflecting doubts about human nature and, at times, touching.
It makes me wish, once again, that Dostoyevski was able to edit well, Brought to you by Suzanne Collins yes the same Suzanne Collins that wrote The Hunger Games, Gregor the Overlander is a fun and entertaining read.
Geared towards younger audiences, the Gregor books are a kind of Alice in Wonderland for boys,

Eleven year old Gregor is stuck babysitting his baby sister Boots, They are in the basement of their apartment building where Gregor is doing their laundry when Boots disappears into an air duct, Gregor follows Boots and falls into another world, They end up in an underground world where cockroaches are really hugefeet tall, And they speak! It is also a world where the humans live in fear of really huge rats and super sized spiders, There are also very large bats, These bats are bonded for life with the humans that live in this world, Cockroaches, rats, spiders, and bats, I think boys would enjoy this,

Oh I forgot there is a prophecy, Cue ominous music now

Overall, a fun and exciting read perfect for the young and possibly reluctant reader in your life, My boys cant wait to get their hands on this book,
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review to come the hunger games WHO, the only suzanne collins series i respect a badass cockroachriding boy named gregor,

okay, that's actually all i remember from this series, and i remember way more from the hunger games hello, catching fire, . . how are you, but still,

i checked out all of these books from my elementary school library and that is something i cannot say of the hunger games.
because i read those over the summer of seventh grade,

but these were very fun,

so there.

this is part of a project i'm doing where i review books i read a long time ago! such as, Im a fan of the Hunger Games, so when I shifted from reading tons of YA to reading MG it came just as a nobrainer to read Gregor the Overlander, the first book in Collinss first published book series.
I was happy to discover I did right, these books are tons of fun and packed with emotions,

Gregor is an elevenyearsold with real world problems, But his problems are not glamorous, No, they are very everyday and quite unappealing, even sad, After two years of his father disappearing, leaving him, his mother, his grandma and his two sisters with terrible questions and very little money, Gregor is now responsible for way too much.
And he has been pushed to make some hard choices, like not going to summer camp to stay home and help take care of Boots his twoyearold sister and Grandma, who is not doing so well in the memory and walking department, while his mother goes to work.


Not going to camp is already bad enough, but having to do laundry while keeping an eye on Boots in a basement laundry room that is all but child safe, its misery incarnated.
And that's before Boots, running after her ball, finds a trapdoor, falling down, and down into the Underland, Of course, as

the good big brother he is, Gregor follows after her in an attempt to rescue her, only to fall as she did.


The Underland is a place of wonder, inhabited by humans who are nearly transparent, hyper intelligent bats, friendly cockroaches, and truly menacing rats.
Most significantly, soon enough Gregor learns that his father didnt abandon them, He also fell through the trap and has been a prisoner of the Rats for the past two years,

What follows is the quest to rescue Gregors dad, And it is a proper quest, with its own prophecy and search party, and with lots of danger, some scary encounters and lots of unexpected moments, showing the reader that what you see first may not be what really is, and that you should not discount anyone as useless, not even tantrumprone twoyearolds.


I tip my hat to Collins, because it takes talent to make an adult woman care about the fate of two cockroaches, or start liking rats.
It did amaze me how quickly I engage with the characters, a testament to Collins ability to find which makes us tick on an emotional level.


This is an adventurefilled story and yet there is some focus on the emotional side of it, most of which is cleverly disguised so that the pace never slows.
A quick read that is worth the time, but not a recommended read if you as my niece cant even think of spiders without feeling nauseated.
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