- Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Animals, Brothers and sisters
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.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Suzanne Collins
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Perfection Learning Corporation, Chicken House Ltd
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- French, Polish, heb, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781407172583
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American author of young adult literature, whose works include *The Hunger Games* trilogy and *The Underland Chronicles* series. The daughter of an Air Force officer, she lives in her native home of Connecticut.
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