Gregor the Overlander is a fantasy novel about an 11 year old boy living with his mother, his grandmother and his two sisters in an apartment in the city after the mysterious disappearance of his father. Gregor and his 2 year old sister "fall" into a vent in the laundry room basement into another world inhabited by life-sized roaches, spiders, rats, and bats, in addition to the Underlanders. After learning that his father may well be held captive by the rats and that he, Gregor, is the person fated to free the Underlanders from the oppression of the rats, Gregor sets out on his predestined quest to do just that. Met with resistance from both sides and unlikely allies, Gregor finds that there is more to him than he ever imagined.
Evaluation criteria: Plot and setting
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