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. He falls a long distance, landing in an underground world called the Underland. Gregor rushes to save her, squeezing through the vent. Boots, only two years old, accidentally falls through an open grate in the floor of the laundry room. Gregor, age 11, is helping Boots do laundry. The novel begins at Gregor and Boots’ apartment in New York City. Gregor and Boots join Luxa, her cousin, Henry, and a cast of friendly vermin to fulfill the prophecy. 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. There, the vermin of the human world grow as big and as sentient as humans. The fantasy novel follows young protagonist, Gregor, who travels with his little sister, Boots, to a subterranean society.
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