Read Online Gregor And The Marks Of Secret Underland Chronicles Book 4 Suzanne Collins 9780439791465 Books

Product details Age Range 8 - 12 years Grade Level 3 - 7 Lexile Measure 730 (What's this?) Paperback 343 pages Publisher Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 1, 2007) Language English ISBN-10 0439791464

Gregor And The Marks Of Secret Underland Chronicles Book 4 Suzanne Collins 9780439791465 Books Reviews

• Gregor returns to the Underland to visit his mother and for lessons with Ripred. When a nibbler sends Luxa’s crown (a coded message that they need help), Gregor, Luxa, Boots, Hazard, and Howard along with four bats and Temp head out on a “picnic” (really, to investigate what is going on with the nibblers). They discover the gnawers are now being led by the Bane and attempting to eliminate the nibblers.
  
  This fourth book of the Gregor the Overlander series is dedicated to setting up the final book. The feel of the entire thing is a bit darker than the previous books. The pattern established in books one through three is completely broken in this one. The end is quite depressing and makes you want to move right on to book five.
• Gregor's decision not to kill the Bane in book 2 seems to have brought dire consequences to Regalia and the nibblers (mice). Bane has fallen under the control of an evil rat who has filled his head with lies and the mice are facing annihilation. This story also focuses on Gregor' s growing feelings for Luxa, the future queen of Regalia. At the end of the book Gregor takes up the sword eunuch belonged to Sandwich, the founder of the Underland and the writer of the prophecies. Will this sword bring Gregor victory or death?
• My son (12) was reading one for school. I read with him. I'm 51. I love the adventure! Imagination! I bought all of them that night and started reading them and am on the last one! 😣 Code of the Claw. Well, it's the last one i saw. Believe me if there's more I'm lookin for them! I really loved them and would read late... or into the wee hours of the morning when i should've been sleeping to get up for work! That's how much i liked them! Hoping to get my son more interested in reading. I started hated reading too when i was 12. I missed out!
• I really never saw myself reading books for ages "9 and up," but a friend recommended the series and I became hooked. The first book had me hesitant, I'm not usually a big fan of child narrators, but Collins proved me wrong. The other problem I usually have with younger age books is that they are too simplistic. Once again, Collins proves me wrong. The writing is simplistic enough to be believable for a 12yr old's point of view, but the plot itself is unpredictable and full of really good twists and keeps you thinking.
  
  The action pieces are also something I did not expect, as I thought they would be downplayed for a younger age. Instead, they are well written and demonstrate the brutalities of battle (even if the ones fighting are not human) and although not the most gruesome scenes I've read (I read horror genre too). I was surprised that the level of brutality was recommended for ages as young as nine, but as an older reader I found it refreshing to not have fights and battles sugar coated.
  
  The characters are engaging and the whole Underland world is complete and intriguing with the many 'peoples' that live there and the differences all the groups have. I cannot recommend how a reader of say age nine would like this series, but I can say that as a 22yr old, if you don't mind reading something a 'the lower level,' I defiantly recommend it for many ages over 9.
• My 10 year old son has purchased all the books in this series, with his own money, which I think says a lot for a ten year old. He has never bought any other series, there has been a few that he read the first book, then never asked about the next one. In my opinion Suzanne Collins is a fantastic writer, I read her hunger games trilogy twice, back to back, crying my eyes out for a lot of it. He has recommended this series to any of his friends who would listen, and a few who did not want to listen P He has also taken them to school to read aloud in reading class and made signs for his room "Gregor the overlander is awesome" ect.. He tells me all about the rats and other icy creatures that live in the underland, it has really held his attention, which isn't easy, he has ADHD, and normally doesn't like to read.
• While I have not read the book myself, my ten year old son has, and at times could not put this series down. He is required to read thirty minutes for school each day, and never reads a minute over thirty... until he started this series. Summer vacation started and he is still reading. I think that is the highest praise I can give. This series was recommended to us by his fourth grade teacher and has been a favorite with many of the boys in that class.
• Suzanne Collins has not lost her touch. Gregor and Luxa's story continues as it has in the other books with suspense, adventure and a great storyline. I still love the characters, and there are always new things in the Underland.
  
  The only reason I gave it four stars instead of five, is because she leaves you right in the air at the end. For the most part the other books in the series wrapped up the main conflict and just left a small opening for a sequel. I loved that about them. This book leaves you right in the middle of everything, and it was very frustrating. I know a lot of publishers like that because it makes you want to go out and buy another book. I was planning to get the 5th book anyway because I love them all, but I live in a small town, and have to order those kinds of things online or drive a long way to get them. It was very frustrating to be dropped in the middle of a story, and that I will have to wait to see what will happen. I do recommend this book, but only if you already have the 5th one waiting to be read when you are done. Otherwise, wait until you have both of them.
• I agree with another reviewer that this book is really just Part 1 of Book 5. The book doesn't really have a climax-- it's basically just one long journey to discover what has become of the nibblers. The discovery is made, and the travelers return to Regalia.
  
  Even when the awful discovery is made, I didn't feel really attached to the nibblers until afterwards, when Luxa reveals that she knew many of those who were killed. Being privy to her personal connections with individual nibblers earlier in the story could have added a lot more power to the death scene.
  
  There's just not enough going on here to hold a reader's attention. Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods sets a precedent that is hard to match.