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Gregor the Overlander Review. If you loved this, you might like these About Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins has had a successful and prolific career writing for children's television.

More About Suzanne Collins. More Books By Suzanne Collins. Share this book. Make your own! What do you want to find in your Christmas Stocking? Vote Now. Gregor wants no part of it -- until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. Reluctantly, Gregor embarks on a dangerous adventure that will change both him and the Underland forever.

Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published May 1st by Scholastic first published September 1st More Details Original Title. Underland Chronicles 1 , Seria Cronici din subpamant, partea I. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Gregor the Overlander , please sign up. Is the book good? I read the hunger games and really enjoyed it. Wilhoit This series is better than the Hunger Games and I have no clue why it doesn't get more attention.

Probably because it would be pretty much impossible …more This series is better than the Hunger Games and I have no clue why it doesn't get more attention. Probably because it would be pretty much impossible to make into a movie with one of the main characters being a toddler. It's up there with Harry Potter for me. Very intense. By the last book or two it's not a children's book anymore to me- you're getting into adult territory with war and serious themes, but you won't be able to stop reading.

Also great on audiobook- the narrator does a great job and adds a lot to it. Question- does anyone else think that the phrase "everyone a rager" in Lorde's song Glory and Gore might refer to this series? For a few months I liked The Hunger Games better, but i'm pretty sure that was only the hype of reading it for the first time. I have read the series so so many times now. See all 33 questions about Gregor the Overlander….

Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Gregor the Overlander Underland Chronicles, 1. Sep 09, Eh? I recently went solo dining with the 2nd book in the series and sat down at a counter, speeding through the large font and well-spaced text. The restaurant started to fill up and another solo diner sat down next to me. I glanced over at his magazine and saw that it was a scientific journal open to an article about the brain.

I casually angled the cover of my Scholastic-published book away from his view and kept reading, very self-conscious of the approximately 18 grades of school between our rea I recently went solo dining with the 2nd book in the series and sat down at a counter, speeding through the large font and well-spaced text.

I casually angled the cover of my Scholastic-published book away from his view and kept reading, very self-conscious of the approximately 18 grades of school between our reading materials. I'm bouncing around in my reading material lately. I've been trying to force the weighter books and it's like an overtight pair of jeans. Lay back on the bed, take a deep breath, and hope you can wrestle that zipper up before the oxygen runs out or the button pops off and you lose an eye. The YA and younger books are more like comfortable sweatpants, the waistband slightly stretched and the material over the seat taking on a sheen from wear.

I need to take in a few sweatpants books before attempting another jeans book. Who am I trying to impress? No need to do the David Hasselhoff on Baywatch stomach suck.

This is what I repeat to myself when I sit next to someone reading a scientific journal open to an article about the brain The beginning of the 2nd book helped me pinpoint why I liked this 1st book so much.

With the next in the series, Gregor is suddenly having these abilities he never had before. The first book moved forward with his own average self, no special powers needed.

While he may have been written as more selfless than the typical boy his age, he made mistakes and was cranky like a real boy. When he was courageous, loyal, loving, or expressed empathy, it wasn't unusual - it could be duplicated by any child who read this book. The value of that!

You too can be like this! He could never hate people very long because he always ended up finding out something sad about them that he had to factor in. Like this kid at school everybody hated because he was always pushing little kids around and then one day they found out his dad had hit him so much, he was in the hospital. With stuff like that, all Gregor could feel was bad. Oh, the story was set in this quest for his father with a fantastic imaginary world underground featuring people who had lived there so long that they were pale-haired, translucent-skinned, and violet-eyed.

The allies and enemies were gigantic bats, cockroaches, and rats. This is meant for a younger audience than The Hunger Games trilogy, so probably elementary age. The quest kicked off with an awful set of prophetic verse not as bad as Brian "One Trick Pony" Jacques but nowhere near the soaring glory to me of Susan Cooper. The ending was rushed. But I loved it for keeping the hero ordinary. My favorite line? From my favorite character, the little sister, Boots: "I poop!

The square brackets don't insert a colon anymore! View all 40 comments. Dec 06, karen rated it liked it Shelves: why-yes-i-ya , kiddiwinx. View all 30 comments. Oct 19, Rfrancik rated it it was amazing Shelves: 1-e , 6-fictional-chapter-books. When Gregor falls after his little sister down the laundry shoot he finds himself in a new land. He is faced with deciding where to place his loyalties, how to survive and given the opportunity to search for his father who unaccountably disappeared 2 years ago.

This book has ruined my entire day! I have laundry to fold, dinner to cook, breakfast to eat, 3 papers to write and lesson plans to develop. Instead, I've spent my morning snuggled under a down quilt devouring Gregor the Overlander. As so When Gregor falls after his little sister down the laundry shoot he finds himself in a new land. As soon as I finished it I slid into my car and ran back to work to collect the next four books in the series. It looks like the rest of my life is going on hold for awhile.

I have always loved fairytales and mysteries in the Agatha Christie model. It's restful and reassuring to know there may be trials and tribulations but good will always defeat evil and the deserving will live happily ever after. Gregor the Overlander carries these themes forward but provides subtle opportunities for the reader to question their convictions about "right and wrong" through the protagonist's encounters with various species in the Underworld. Equally appealing is the sharing of Gregor's thoughts as he begins to recognize the limits he has set for himself with self imposed rules after his father's disappearance.

So often books of this genre for the elementary crowd become preachy and moralistic. Suzanne Collins does not preach. She invites the reader to explore issues about tolerance, responsibility, growing up, and loyalty for themselves. This first book is the equal of the Harry Potter books exploring the same issues with an emotional power and linguistic accessablity for the 5th-8th grade crowd. I've listed a few of my favorite quotes below.

Brave little Tick who had flown into the face of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick--who never spoke much. Tick--who shared her food. Tick--who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more.

Somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow. From now on he felt an allegiance to the roaches he knew would never fade. For good. Even if times got bad he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful.

He would allow himself dreams. Reviews: 1 Booklist starred November 15, Vol. This is sure to be a solid hit with young fantasy fans.

Several of the other reviews also mention it is one of a series and they all recommend it for the same age groups. What the reviewers fail to say is now much parents would enjoy sharing this book with their children. View all 10 comments. Jul 07, emma rated it liked it Shelves: fantasy , reviewed , project-review-everything , 3-and-a-half-stars , children-s , sci-fi. View all 7 comments. Shelves: reviewed , young-reader , do-not-judge-by-the-cover , classic-young-reader , favorites.

The covers of the Underland Chronicles do them no end of disservice. Since my policy is to judge a book by its cover, it took reading The 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. Suzanne Collins , however, is in no way machine-generated. She is Dostoyevski for the young-reader crowd.

While she uses The covers of the Underland Chronicles do them no end of disservice. 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 child-soldier or children-save-the-world stories, the Underland Chronicles are not comforting in the way Harry Potter and Twilight are, nor are they as morally-outraged and uncomfortable as Ender's Game , but I found them more honest than all of those.

Collins never seems overcome by her own power as an author, self-indulgent in her story-telling, or worried that her audience won't understand her overall message. Her writing is not as lyrically beautiful as Kate DiCamillo's whose is, for that matter? Full description. Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record! Downloadable audio books. Fantasy fiction. Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here. Our building is currently open for pick-up of materials , 45 minute computer sessions, and browsing of materials.

Get Directions. Availability Loading Summary Rich in suspense and brimming with adventure, the New York Times-bestselling Underland Chronicles unfold the fate of the Underland and the great warrior, Gregor. The cure is quickly distributed, but Gregor soon learns that it will be months until his mother will be well enough to return home.

So, with his family in desperate need of help, Gregor finally tells Mrs. Cormaci about the Underland. Gregor begins to frequently visit his friends and mother in Regalia. In Gregor and the Marks of Secret, Luxa receives a signal for help from her mouse friends. Many signs point to one thing: the Nibblers are in great peril. Luxa and Gregor journey back to the jungle to discover that the colony of Nibblers originally residing there have vanished.

On an unauthorized quest, they set out to find what has happened to all of the Nibblers. Gregor and Luxa discover that the Bane has escaped from Ripred's care and is rallying the rats, stirring up a war; intending to kill all the Nibblers. Luxa declares war on the rats after witnessing them kill hundreds of her friends- Howard, Luxa, and their bonds stay to fight the army while Gregor returns to Regalia with the wounded and young.

Gregor is worried about his friends in the Firelands runs off with Ares to help fight. After the battle, Gregor flies back with Luxa, who is desperately ill.

When he returns, he is shut in the dungeon for disobeying Solovet's orders. During his time spent locked away, he discovers he is able to use echolocation, and continues to practice it in the darkness. When he is finally recovered, he finds that he is being released because Solovet has discovered his secret- he is in love with Luxa. Regalia falls under attack. The rats have allied with the Diggers, colossal moles who can dig through stone, leaving the palace, Regalia's only stronghold, vulnerable.

The Code of Claw is broken with the help of Lizzie, Gregor's younger sister. In the last battle at the Plain of Tartarus, Gregor finally vanquishes the Bane--but in the process, Ares, his bond, is killed.

Gregor believes he is dying, only to wake up in a hospital, covered in wounds. During a peace offering between the humans and the rats, Luxa bonds with the thought-to-be-dead Ripred, and calls for the rats help to defeat the rallying army of Cutters.