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Headings: Gregor the Overlander
Gregor the Overlander
Suzanne Collins
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Content: Gregor the Overlander was Suzanne Collins’s first novel, published by Scholastic in 2003. The fantasy novel follows young protagonist, Gregor, who travels with his little sister, Boots, to a subterranean society. There, the vermin of the human world grow as big and as sentient as humans. Gregor meets the queen of the “Underland” human faction, Luxa, and gets roped into a prophecy which holds that two “Overlanders,” or humans from Gregor’s world, will team up with 10 “Underlanders” to save Gregor’s father from giant rats. Gregor and Boots join Luxa, her cousin, Henry, and a cast of friendly vermin to fulfill the prophecy. Plot Summary
The novel begins at Gregor and Boots’ apartment in New York City. Gregor, age 11, is helping Boots do laundry. Boots, only two years old, accidentally falls through an open grate in the floor of the laundry room. Gregor rushes to save her, squeezing through the vent. He falls a long distance, landing in an underground world called the Underland.