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Author
Language
English
Description
"In Underland, Macfarlane delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time"--The dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present--he moves from the birth of the universe...
2) Wool
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely unaware of the fate of the outside world. When the silo's sheriff asks to leave the silo, a series of events unravels the very fabric of their fragile lives. In a world where all commodities are precious and running out, truth and hope may be the most rare...and the most needed."--
3) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The A-Team follows the exploits of a wrongly accused commando unit turned soldiers of fortune. Living in the Los Angeles underground, they fight criminals for hire while evading their government pursuers. Includes all 14 episodes from season one.
6) Spiral
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also have problems of their own.
7) Túneles
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
Español
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
8) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
9) Terminal
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all human and Styx life"--
10) Some fine day
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A generation ago, continent-sized storms called hypercanes caused the Earth to flood. The survivors were forced to retreat deep underground and build a new society. This is the story that sixteen-year-old Jansin Nordqvist has heard all of her life. Jansin grew up in the civilization far below the Earth's surface. She's spent the last eight years in military intelligence training. So when her parents surprise her with a coveted yet treacherous trip...
11) Tunnels
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Archeology-enthusiasts Will Burrows and his father dig up an abandoned tunnel that leads underneath London, but when Will's father disappears he goes on the hunt with his friend Chester, and on the run from the strange men in tall hats. Includes an excerpt from "Deeper."
Author
Series
Hyacinth volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The hilarious first book in a middle-grade fantasy trilogy about the magical rivers that run through the sewers of London and shape history in ways you'd never learn in school.
Magic is real. History is a big, fat lie.
Before Hyacinth Hayward moves from Illinois to London, she reads up on the city’s history. Too bad for her. Because the books are wrong. The truth is, London was built on magical rivers, and...
Magic is real. History is a big, fat lie.
Before Hyacinth Hayward moves from Illinois to London, she reads up on the city’s history. Too bad for her. Because the books are wrong. The truth is, London was built on magical rivers, and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.
14) Closer
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-olds Ananka Fishbein, Kiki Strike and the other Irregulars encounter a Chinese mummy, a ghost, trained squirrels, and old enemies asthey try to stop an art forgery ring.
16) First light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
17) Beneath
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop, right up until the day Coop ran away from their home just outside Washington, D.C. -- now a year later he has received a package containing a digital voice recorder and a cryptic message from his brother, which will lead Pat on a strange and dangerous journey to the mysterious Community living beneath the streets of New York.
18) Above
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Pat O'Toole, his brother Coop, and their new companion, Kate, have narrowly escaped the cultlike community below New York City but must try to stop the cult's leader, Kate's grandfather.
19) Underground
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Indentification" page.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A man-beast living under the streets of New York City saves and befriends a wealthy and shallow attorney after she is beaten and left for dead. From the moment these two cross paths, they share a strong psychic bond, and though they live in separate worlds, their love continues to grow without measure.
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