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Billy and the birdfrogs Billy and the birdfrogs B. B. Wurge Billy must save himself and his eccentric grandmother from a nefarious plot to steal the Manhattan townhouse where, years before, his paleontologist mother discovered a race of exotic creatures livin… OL11962236W
Wool Wool Hugh Howey,Hugh Howey They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a view of the outside world, a spoiled and rotten world, their forefathers left behind. But this view fades over time, ruined by … OL16800608W
The great stink The great stink Clare Clark It is 1855, and engineer William May has returned home to London and his beloved wife from the horrors of the Crimean War. When he secures a job transforming the city's sewer system, he believes it w… OL17738717W
Under the ground Under the ground Henry Pluckrose 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. OL1806656W
Under the ground Under the ground Andrew Langley Describes things which are found underground such as worms, coal, caves, tunnels, cables, and artifacts. OL1888594W
The Lifters The Lifters Dave Eggers What if nothing was as it seemed? What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysteri… OL19185520W
Di di da tan xian Di di da tan xian Jane Price Young readers will dig deep into this compendium of all things underground, from volcanoes and dinosaur bones to tombs, city works, and buried treasure. OL20046079W
Going Underground Going Underground John Malam "Ants, rabbits, and moles live underground. But did you know there is a bird that makes its nest underground? Which humans work underground? Find out more about the underground world"--Page 4 of cove… OL21518635W
The penultimate truth The penultimate truth Philip K. Dick The Penultimate Truth is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future where the bulk of humanity is kept in large underground shelters. The people are … OL2172396W
Deeper Deeper Roderick Gordon Fourteen-year-old Will Burrows lives in the suburbs of London, or at least he did up until a few months ago. That's when his archaeologist father suddenly disappears. When the police fail to turn up … OL24259858W
Dust Dust Hugh Howey Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible con… OL24262043W
The Bewildered The Bewildered Peter Rock A riveting novel about electricity, skateboarding, blindness, friendship, and the hope for something new. In Portland, Oregon, three high school friends—Leon, Chris, and Kayla—skateboard beneath the … OL2737275W
America underground America underground Christie McFall Describes all the things found underground, including living creatures, caves, minerals, tunnels, subways, offices, and landfills. OL4078708W
Maximum ice Maximum ice Kay Kenyon Zoya Kundara has lived on the space vessel Star Road for two hundred fifty years. As its Ship Mother, kept alive in a state of pseudoimmortality, she has provided wisdom and counsel to succeeding gen… OL5684452W
Gregor the Overlander Gregor the Overlander Suzanne Collins When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest f… OL5735348W
Up above and down below Up above and down below Sue Redding Illustrations and rhyming text reveal events happening in varied environments, from an icy sea to a blistering desert, while very different things occur down below. OL5822980W
Kiki Strike Kiki Strike Kirsten Miller 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 … OL5838672W
The Coming Race The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton The Coming Race, an early science-fiction work, with its superman race the Vril-ya descended from the same ancestors as the great Aryan family, from which in varied streams has flowed the dominant ci… OL61825W
Deeper Deeper Brian Williams,Roderick Gordon 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 a… OL8775038W
Charlie in the underworld Charlie in the underworld Charlie Small A continuation of the purported journal of an eight-year-old adventurer, as he faces myriad strange creatures in the underground world of Subterranea. OL9334441W
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