{"title": "Gregor the Overlander", "covers": [8345963, 13649650, 12876314], "key": "/works/OL5735348W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1394359A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "excerpts": [{"pages": "-", "excerpt": "When eleven-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of his New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. There humans live uneasily beside giant spiders, bats, cockroaches and rats. \r\nGregor just wants to find his way home. But then he discovers that a prophecy foretells a role for him in the Underland's future. He must go on a quest that will change him- and the Underland- for ever.", "comment": "Taken from the back cover of the 2013 Scholastic Ltd. edition.", "author": {"key": "/people/newtonian7446"}}], "subjects": ["Children's fiction", "Adventure and adventurers, fiction", "Animals", "Brothers and sisters", "Fantasy", "Insects", "Quests (Expeditions)", "Juvenile fiction", "Quests", "Boy heroes", "Rats", "Fiction", "Prophecies", "Voyages and travels", "Missing persons", "Imaginary wars and battles", "Two-year-old girls", "Eleven-year-old boys", "Underground areas", "Siblings", "Fantasy fiction", "Large type books", "Brothers and sisters, fiction", "Missing persons, fiction", "Animals, fiction", "Siblings, fiction", "New york (n.y.), fiction", "Serie:Underland_Chronicles"], "description": "When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.", "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL327006L"}, "position": "1"}], "latest_revision": 21, "revision": 21, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T11:10:55.999788"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-08T20:50:33.718208"}}