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Headings: Gregor the Overlander
Gregor the Overlander
Suzanne Collins
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Content: This forgotten world is home to societies of inordinately large spiders, rats, bats, and cockroaches, as well as a number of humans, who discovered the land in the 1600s and founded a colony. The colony originated when an immigrant Stonemason from England, who was anticipating an apocalypse on the surface world and led his devout followers underground. Gregor learns that the vent in his laundry room is one of the only surviving tunnels to the Underland. When they land in the Underland, a group of huge cockroaches approaches the children. Convinced that Gregor is the human spoken of in a prophecy, the cockroaches take the children into the human city of Regalia. There, Gregor meets Luxa, who is slated to become Regalia’s queen when she comes of age, and her cousins, Henry and Nerissa. Gregor quickly dislikes Henry and Luxa, who appear unfriendly and hostile to their arrival. Gregor learns more about the Prophecy of Gray, which told of his arrival. The prophecy claims that two Overlanders, who may be himself and Boots, will team up with 10 Underlanders to find his father. Initially doubtful that they are the chosen “questers,” as soon as they learn that their father may be alive, Gregor and Boots resolve to make the journey.