Catalog Search Results
1) Wool
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
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,...
2) Dust
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
3) Tunnels
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
472 pages ; 22 cm
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
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sully Stringfellow, his arch-nemesis Izzy Cisco, friend Moleman, and a league of long-forgotten plumber heroes team up to save Nitro City from mutant creatures in the sewers.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I.... Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest and most defiant women venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. But wine is not...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Larkin leads a band of magical outlaws through a subterranean realm of horrors and certain death.
In Demura, magic is illegal. Eight criminals led by rebellious Larkin are sent on a mission to rid their realm of an ancient evil lurking beneath the surface. Descending into a world full of unspeakable horrors, Larkin and her crew must use their forbidden magic to survive. Amias, a fellow outlaw with a notorious past, discovers that...
8) Underground
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
290L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Indentification" page.
Author
Series
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 medicine...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
11) Shift
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms 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
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
487 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the underground city of Caverna, craftsmen create wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna have faces as blank as untouched snow; only the Facesmiths can teach a person to express (or fake) emotions. Into this world comes Neverfell, a girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she...
13) Deeper
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
643 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.
15) Freefall
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
599 pages ; 22 cm
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.
16) Closer
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
527 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this middle-grade madcap adventure, a brother and sister find themselves in the underground hospital for magical creatures where they must save the lives of millions of magical creatures... and themselves.
18) Topside
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
200 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jo, a maintenance technician in an underground society, makes a massive error during a routine repair and to set things right, must journey above ground, to a dangerous area swarming with alien life.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl--an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere--a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl...
20) Above
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Pat O'Toole, his brother Coop, and their new companion, Kate, have narrowly escaped the cultlike community below New York City but must try to stop the cult's leader, Kate's grandfather.