Gregor is not your typical New York City tween. He is spending his summer at home taking care of his grandma and baby sister Boots while his mom is at work and his middle sister is at camp. Gregor understands his need to help his family ever since his father disappeared about two years ago.

When a family friend stops by to sit with his grandma, Gregor takes Boots to the laundry room as he had promised his mom that he would complete that task before she returned home from work. Gregor and Boots are playing with a "bouncy ball" while he is taking care of the laundry. He realizes Boots has been quiet for some time and sees that she's near an air vent. He chases after her as she goes through and they begin to fall.

Once they land, Gregor realizes that they are someplace else. Cockroaches, extremely large cockroaches, find Gregor and Boots. They decide to take them somewhere, but Gregor doesn't know where. They end up in an arena of sorts where humans and bats, again large bats, are playing a game. The cockroaches negotiate Gregor and Boots' release to the humans, which is agreed upon.

Gregor and Boots are taken to the Underland city of Regalia where he is trying to determine if he is a guest or a prisoner. After an attempt at escape, he learns that several believe he is The Warrior as told in The Prophecy of the Gray. It is decided that Gregor must fulfill this prophecy, even if he doesn't believe it.

My boys recommended this book to me after both of them read it. As a book targeted towards middle school, I found that it kept the pace that is needed for my boys to continue to be engaged and want to go back to the book after it's been set down. The characters are appropriately developed and act their age based on the responsibilities that are required of them. I enjoyed Gregor's dedication to his family, especially his baby sister. I also felt that he grew as a character where in the end he shared that he wanted to help find peaceful solutions and have war be the last resort.

I'm certain that I will read the other books in this series as they are brought home.

Passing along

This will be a nice addition to the box of books I am preparing to release at the Children's Hospital in my City for:

ResQgeek's 9th Annual Becky's Hugs release challenge (February 2019) https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/557778

THANK YOU, BookLovinMama...for sending it along with my "Knit the Season" by Kate Jacobs https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/13486590 (Received 6 December...sorry I have not been able to make a JE until now) selection from:

booklady331's US Already Bookcrossed (ABC) ring Round 17 Sign Up Thread (Where, not realizing there were two threads, I mistakenly posted my participation details, and then subsequently posted them in the Journal thread...see below)
Sign Up Thread Link: https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/553947

booklady331's Already Book Crossed Bookbox
Journal Thread Link: https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7925010?page=4

Due to health reasons, I have been unable to make my Children's Hospital Release, so I am sending this off as a SURPRISE RABCK of Children's/YA Books, Bookmarks, BC Supplies, and Magazines to fulfill a Fellow BCers wishes for her new LFL, and for this Release Challenge:

booklady331's 2019 Keep Them Moving (KTM) Release Challenge
https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/557667

SURPRISE RABCK sent to a fellow BCer and Official New Steward of Little Free Library #63090...CONGRATULATIONS...and THANK YOU for the BC Supplies and other LOVEly surprises as part of J4shaw's USA & Canada Wishlist Tag Game 2019 USA & Canada Wishlist Tag Game 2019 that I found on my doorstep on the very same day I returned home from doctor appointments and a trip to the Post Office to mail this off!!! : D I hope nothing was missing, as the envelope had a large hole torn open in the return address corner when I received it. I don't know if it came to me first, or was delivered to a neighbor who started opening it before realizing it was for my address. This seems to happen quite frequently in our neighborhood. I receive mail for other neighbors, too.

TO THE FINDER OF THIS BOOK:

HELLO...WELCOME to BOOKCROSSING...and CONGRATULATIONS!

You have not only found yourself a good book, but a whole community of booklovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large. I hope you'll stick around a bit and get to know BOOKCROSSING http://www.bookcrossing.com/about. Maybe you'll even decide to make a journal entry on this book, possibly listing me...BOOKWORMINUSALL...as the one who referred you. We want to make the whole world a library! You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (it's free!). Feel free to read and keep this book, or to pass it on to a friend, or even set it free "in the wild" for someone else to find as you did. If you do choose to join and journal, then you can watch the book as it travels - you'll be alerted by email each time someone makes another journal entry. It's all confidential (you're known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your email address), it's fun, it's free, and it's spam-free...all thanks to our dedicated totally AWESOME BOOKCROSSING MANAGEMENT http://www.bookcrossing.com/management, and SUPPORT TEAMS!!!

HAPPY READING! : )

Thank you BOOKWORMINUSALL for this contribution to LFL 63090, and the.magazines, too!

Thanks for sharing different and interesting books at the Snellville City Center!