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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
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...
Author
Publisher
Johnson Books
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Formats
Description
Have you ever seen a manhole cover with little glass circles in it and wondered why it was different from the others? Did you ever imagine that there were actually tunnels under the sidewalks? You'll be surprised to find out how many cities in Colorado had these tunnels. And they're still under our streets! Those manhole covers imbedded with glass circles, many that have turned purple with age, allowed light into the tunnels below. The Tunnels Under...
5) Tunnels
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when his dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a subterranean society that time forgot. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone...
6) Underground
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Indentification" page.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged—the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As the clock ticks down on Julie’s life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for...
9) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House
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.
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A darkly evocative compendium of images exploring natural, constructed, imaginary and subconscious underworlds, curated by renowned image collector and social media figure Stephen Ellcock. From the burrows and secret bunkers beneath our feet to imagined hellscapes and surrealist dreamscapes, the disquieting, alarming and wonderful visuals span natural and constructed subterranea and imagined and subconscious worlds. A personal introduction by Stephen...
11) Timeless
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"At long last, New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns with one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, in an all-new trilogy full of swordplay, danger, and imaginative thrills, Centuries ago, in the city of Menzoberranzan, the City of Spiders, the City of Drow, nestled deep in the unmerciful Underdark of Toril, a young weapon master earned a reputation far above his station or that of his poor...
12) Paris Catacombs
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the Paris Catacombs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"In the underground city of Caverna, the world's most skilled craftspeople toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare-- wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as he slits your throat. On the surface, the people of Caverna seem ordinary, except for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths...
14) Armadillos
Author
Series
Publisher
Cody Koala, an imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Describes armadillos 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."--
Author
Series
Amazing adventures of Charlie Small volume 5
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A continuation of the purported journal of an eight-year-old adventurer, as he faces myriad strange creatures in the underground world of Subterranea.
16) Wool
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silos rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was supposed to just be a normal basement--some storage boxes, dust, you know, the usual basement stuff. But when Milo is sent by his mother to fetch a sock from the basement of the historic home they've moved into, Milo finds a door in the back that he's never seen before. Turns out that the basement of his house is enormous. In fact, there is a whole world down there. As Milo travels ever deeper into the Basement World, he meets the many Things...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"--
19) Closer
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 4
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
20) Moles
Author
Series
Publisher
Cody Koala, an imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Describes moles 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."--