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Gregor the Overlander
''Gregor the Overlander'' is a children's novel by Suzanne Collins containing elements of high fantasy. It was published in 2003, and is the first book of ''The Underland Chronicles''. It was received well by critics, and was listed as one of New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Scholastic.com – International Rights: Authors and Illustrators )〕 It was featured by the U.S. National Public Radio in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Excerpt: 'Gregor the Overlander' )〕 Scholastic has rated the book's "(grade level equivalent )" as 4.9 and the book's lexile score as 630L, making it reading-level-appropriate for the average fourth or fifth grader.
==Plot summary==
Eleven-year-old Gregor is left home alone in his family's New York City apartment to watch his sisters and grandmother. When Gregor's baby sister Boots falls through an old air duct grate in the building's basement, he dives in after her. The two fall miles below into the Underland: a subterranean world home to humans with near-translucent skin; giant sentient bats, rodents, and insects; and an escalating conflict between the human city of Regalia and the rats' King Gorger. They meet several "Underlanders", among them the Regalians' crown princess Luxa, her cousin Henry, and the bats who are "bonded" to them. At first Gregor wants only to return home, but when he is attacked by two rats during an escape attempt and saved by the Underlanders, he inadvertently brings the conflict between the two groups to a head.
It is then that he learns the real reason for the rats' hatred of Overlanders: a mysterious prophecy written by the human colony's founder Bartholomew of Sandwich hints that an Overland "warrior" will stop an attempt by the rats to take over the underground realm once and for all. The Regalian council believes Gregor to be this warrior, and tries to convince him to undertake the quest mentioned in the "Prophecy of Gray". Though he sympathizes, Gregor is reluctant to help until he learns a surprising fact: his father, who disappeared unexpectedly over two years before, had actually fallen down into Regalia just like Gregor and Boots and been taken prisoner by the rats. Gregor, his sister, and a group of Regalians go on a journey to rescue Gregor's father and recruit allies for a war against the rats.
The quest group struggles but successfully recruits allies for the Regalians, and then journeys to find Gregor's dad emaciated and tortured in the personal prison of King Gorger. The rat king discovers their rescue attempt and Henry reveals that he has been helping the rats all along, hoping to ally them with the Regalians and conquer the entire Underland. During the quest group's attempt to escape, Gregor sacrifices himself to lure the rats' attack force—King Gorger and Henry among them—off the edge of a cliff. Henry's bat Ares, who had no knowledge of his bond's treachery, chooses to save Gregor rather than Henry as they fall. When the few remaining quest members make it back to Regalia Luxa and her family are devastated, in part because of Henry's treason and death, and also because Ares is sentenced to banishment (essentially a death sentence in the dangerous world below) for allowing his bond to die. Gregor saves his life by using his status as the "warrior" to bond with him. When things have settled down somewhat and the Regalian doctors have done all they can for his father, Gregor and his family return to the surface.
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