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 * Gregor the Overlander **
 * // By Suzanne Collins //**

Since his father disappeared, and his mother is forced to work a lot to support the family, Gregor is stuck watching his 2-year-old sister, Boots, for the summer. While doing laundry in the basement, Boots falls down an open air duct. Gregor rushes in to save her and falls down, down, down into another world, a world known as the Underland. The Underland is a place where strange looking humans live, together with huge cockroaches that talk, bats big enough to carry people, giant spiders and big, nasty rats who are determined to eliminate all the people and other creatures from the Underland. There is a prophecy that a warrior will defeat the rats. The Underlanders believe Gregor is that warrior. Gregor wants no part of it until he realizes that his father is also involved with the prophecy. Gregor starts on a dangerous adventure. There is some fearsome fights with rats, some pretty cool flying on bats and if you want to find out more if Gregor and his sister get back to the Overland, or see their mom again, or find their missing dad, you have to read Gregor the Overlander. I chose this book because it takes place in a fascinating world below ours, where people can have bats as flying companions and cockroaches as friends.