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1) Neverwhere
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The Sandman.
2) Wool
Author
Language
English
Description
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo,...
Author
Series
Ember volume 4th
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
4) Tunnels
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare - wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can teach...
6) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
920L
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.
7) Deeper
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
As Will Burrows continues to search for his lost archaeologist father in the strange underground world he has discovered, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
9) Underground
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Lexile measure
290L
Language
English
Description
Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Indentification" page.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Underland, Macfarland 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...
11) Shift omnibus
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Subterranea is where the world's remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It's where humans have kept their most sacred treasures and their darkest secrets. It's where we have found evidence of our past and may, at some point, find an escape route for our uncertain future. But what would we find there today? From the underground cities of Cappadocia to smuggling...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"When Hyacinth mixes hot and cold water in a sink in London with disastrous results, she learns that the city was built on magical rivers that are now London's sewers--and somehow her family is connected to the magic"--
14) Under the ground
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Describes underground areas including subways, bank vaults, and basement offices as well as the machines used to construct these places, dig tunnels, mine coal, and drill for oil.
15) Túneles
Author
Publisher
Puck
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.
19) Prairie dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Cody Koala, an imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
"Describes prairie dogs and their underground homes. Simple text and labeled photos make reading easy and fun, and QR Codes in each chapter give readers access to online resources where they can learn even more."--Amazon
20) Eight will fall
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Larkin leads a band of magical outlaws through a subterranean realm of horrors and certain death.