title: Spider Riders: The Shards of the Oracle
author:  Tedd Anasti 
description: Grade 4-6Thirteen-year-old Hunter Steele, who suffers from severe arachnophobia, is shocked when he accidentally falls through a tunnel to the center of the Earth and finds himself in Arachnia, a world filled with intelligent, 10-foot-long spiders. The humans who reside there live in peace with them and ride on their backs into battle against the sinister Insectors. Hunter's only hope of returning home is to become one of these Spider Riders. He quicklyand unbelievablyconquers his terror when the plot demands it and, again unbelievably, thinks of a clever plan to save the Spider Riders within a few hours of arriving. The spider he rides talks exactly the way one would expect a smart-mouthed cartoon sidekick to speak. <i>This</i> is a shallow, pedestrian, by-the-numbers adventure, but it is also the novelization of an animated TV series scheduled to launch before the end of this year. <i>Walter Minkel, New York Public Library</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  For Bob and Ellen
  
   **Table of Contets**
  
  Cover
  
  Title Page
  
  1 The Ride of a Lifetime
  
  2 Of Mice and Spiders
  
  3 The LaMoia
  
  4 Bridge Over Troubled Waters
  
  5 Pretty in Pink
  
  6 Bowing to Buddha
  
  7 Hide and Peep
  
  8 Catch, As Catch Can
  
  9 Room with a View
  
  10 The Debt
  
  11 A Drowning Is a Drowning, a Fall, a Fall
  
  12 The Gift
  
  13 Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
  
  14 Old Friends, New Enemies
  
  15 The Discovery Process
  
  16 Voice Male
  
  17 Two Peas in a Pod
  
  18 Chumming
  
  19 Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
  
  20 A Wallet and a Watch
  
  21 Silhouettes
  
  22 Knock, Knock. Who’s There?
  
  23 If the Shoe Fits
  
  24 Of Bridges and Badges
  
  25 Buried History
  
  26 The Hearing
  
  27 Three Blocks North of Safety
  
  28 Throwing the Net
  
  29 Voices
  
  30 Snuffing the Flame
  
  31 Ancient Doors
  
  32 Voices in the Dark
  
  33 A New View of Things
  
  34 Hitting the Wall
  
  35 Running Blin