Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55665
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
354
Points per Page
0.022599
Series
Underland Chronicles
Description
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister fall through a grate in their apartment building's laundry room, they land in the Underland, a dark underground world beneath New York City. There, they encounter talking bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who are engaged in a fierce war. Gregor embarks on a dangerous quest to fulfill an ancient prophecy and find his missing father.