Roderick Gordon
1) Tunnels
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
990L
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.
2) Deeper
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
As young archaeologist Will Burrows continues to search for his lost father in the strange underground world he has discovered beneath the city of London, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
3) Closer
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
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.
4) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) Spiral
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also have problems of their own.
6) Terminal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all human and Styx life"--
7) DEEPER BK 2
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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...