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Suzanne Collins | 336 pages | 04 Jul 2013 | Scholastic | 9781407137070 | English | London, United Kingdom Gregor and the Code of Claw by

Summary: Gregor has faced many threats in his time in the Underland, and has been identified by the prophecies as the Warrior, who has helped to defend the Underlanders against the hordes under I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. It was compelling, and I really did enjoy it, but so much of it was dedicated to foreshadowing Gregor's death Gregor and the Code of Claw it was weird that he survived. She is also the author of an upcoming picture book, Year of the Jungle, and the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles series for middle grade readers, which started with . Suzanne lives with her family in Connecticut. You can find her online at suzannecollinsbooks. Gregor Gregor and the Code of Claw the Code of Claw. Suzanne Collins. The stunning conclusion to the riveting Gregor the Overlander series. Gregor knows it must say something awful but he never imagined just how awful: It calls for the warrior's death. Now, with an army of approaching, and his mom and sister still in Regalia, Gregor the warrior must gather up his courage to help defend Regalia and get his family home safely. The entire existence of the Underland is in Gregor's hands, and time is running out. There is a code to be cracked, a mysterious new princess, Gregor's burgeoning dark side, and a war to end all wars. Gregor and the Code of Claw - Wikipedia

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The stunning conclusion to the riveting Gregor the Overlander series. Gregor knows it must say something awful but he never imagined just how awful: It calls for the warrior's death. Now, with an army of rats approaching, and his mom and sister still in Regalia, Gregor the warrio. Now, with an army of rats approaching, and his mom and sister still in Regalia, Gregor the warrior must gather up his courage to help defend Regalia and get his family home safely. The entire existence of the Underland is in Gregor's hands, and time is running out. There is a code to be cracked, a mysterious new princess, Gregor's burgeoning dark side, and a war to end all wars. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published May 1st by Scholastic Press first published April 3rd More Details Original Title. Underland Chronicles 5. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Gregor and the Code of Clawplease sign up. Is there a follow up book? I dont think I got closure, what is Gregor gonna do? Are they moving, is he able to move on? Is he going back Joanna IKR!!! Sadly, there is no sixth book so far, but there are multiple petitions going on to ask Suzanne Collins to write one! The one with the most sign …more IKR!!! This question contains spoilers… view spoiler [Was it just me or Gregor and the Code of Claw a little bit of you die inside when ares died? Kimber Please do not reveal spoilers without warning people first. See all 11 questions about Gregor and the Code of Claw…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul 05, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: fantasychildrens- young-readersadventure21th-century Gregor and the Code of Claw, fiction. It is the fifth and final book of The Underland Chronicles, and was published in The novel has been praised especially as a conclusion to The Underland Chronicles. In its description of the novel, Gregor and the Code of Claw part of its "Recommended Books" award, the CCBC states, "Although Gregor and the Code of Claw works as a stand-alone story, readers will want to start with book one and work their way through to this final volume. Only a few hours have passed since the closing of Gregor and the Marks of Secret, when Gregor returns from the Firelands to warn Regalia of an impending gnawer attack. As the novel opens, Gregor is numb with shock from the Prophecy of Time's apparent prediction of his death. Upon his return, Solovet orders Gregor locked in the dungeon as punishment for this insubordination. He is eventually released by Nerissa to help his sister Boots while the toddler works to fulfill the Prophecy of Time by deciphering the rats' "Code of Claw". Jun 01, Allison rated it it was amazing Shelves: 1ownedgenre-high-fantasyfive-stars. Instead of beginning back in New York, a few months after the previous novel, the fifth, and final, book in The Underland Chronicles takes place almost immediately after Marks of Secret. After declaring war against the rats and their hitler-esque leader, The Bane, the Underlanders are preparing for the mighty war that Sandwich predicted. Gregor, Boots and the gang joined by a surprise member of Gregor's family rush to decode the Code of Claw according to the final prophecy. FIlled with nonstop Instead of beginning back in New York, a few months after the Gregor and the Code of Claw novel, the fifth, and final, book in The Underland Chronicles takes place almost immediately after Marks of Secret. FIlled with nonstop action, Gregor and The Code of Claw is a wonderful and thought-provoking ending to the series. I can honestly say that this book shook me. Gregor and the Code of Claw spending so much time with Suzanne Collins' amazing characters, I was quite sad to see them go. I was perhaps more dissapointed that for most of them, there was no happily ever after, no perfect ending. Despite all they have done, Gregor and Luxa are still preteens at the end of this book, so their stories cannot have an ending. They have growing up to do, new struggles to face, and as much as I crave a happy ending, I do respect Collins for not slapping it on there, because to do so would cheapen the novels. I believe that his experience with the Underland has made Gregor into a perceptive young man who is able to see beyond the traditional presentation of right and wrong. Being in The Underland allows Gregor to think more critically, and to make his own decisions, instead of just blaming fate or a Gregor and the Code of Claw. I also believe that reading this book has helped me to challenge some of the things I once believed and to more thoroughly explore both sides of any issue. I highly recommend this series to young readers and older readers alike because I think it is a well-written, thought provoking series. I hope that Suzanne Collins will at least consider continuing the Underland Chronicles perhaps through a prequel or spin-off series, I'm not sure a sequel to Code of the Claw would be wiseor, at the very least, work on a new series that captures some of the elements that made this one outstanding. View 1 comment. Mar 09, Trina rated it it was amazing. In this last book in the Gregor the Overlander series, Suzanne Collins achieves the impossible. She made me cry over Gregor and the Code of Claw reported death of a rat. It is a testament to her skill at writing these characters in such a way that they seem Gregor and the Code of Claw real, so believable, so sympathetic. She does a fantastic job of painting each creature in shades of gray. There is no one that is all good or all bad. Perhaps that is what makes them seem so real. I fought tears for the entire last half of this book. I'm sure pa In this last book in the Gregor the Overlander series, Suzanne Collins achieves the impossible. I'm sure part of it was because it did feel very final. But more of it was because I could feel the pain contained in the story and relate so easily to the suffering described. Gregor has grown from an impudent child to a mature emissary, struggling with issues of right and wrong; war and peace; justice and injustice. You can't help Gregor and the Code of Claw like him. I read the first Gregor book on a recommendation from my sister-in-law. I wasn't all that impressed with the first one, although it was entertaining enough that I wanted to give the rest of the series a chance. I am so glad I stuck with it. I didn't sob aloud for the tragedy in this book as I did when reading Gregor and the Code of Claw a certain Hogwart's funeral, but I love these characters. I am so sad that there are no more stories about them. Collins' writing improved markedly with each book and I hope she continues to write many more. View all 5 comments. Dec 29, Nikki M rated it really liked it Shelves: fantasyfor-the-kids. I liked this series a lot, and I liked this book for the most part. I think that I'd give it a 3. The ending didn't give me the closure that I'd like. You're not sure if he's moving, if he'll ever go to the Underland again, if he'll ever see Luxa Gregor and the Code of Claw, how he'll handle trying to be a normal 12 year old again after all that he has been through and all th I liked this series a lot, and I liked this book for the most part. Essentially, I didn't have to have all of that explained, but I needed to have a tad more closure than I got. Considering that this book is geared toward juveniles, I can't imagine them going with the "Cast Away" type ending that you god here. All that being said. This series was totally worth reading! This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. Gregor and the Code of Claw | The Underland Cyclopedia | Fandom

Series: Underland Chronicles 5. His eyes and skin were still stinging from the volcanic ash that had engulfed him hours ago. Between the burning in his lungs Gregor and the Code of Claw the rapid beating of his heart, it was hard to get a full breath. To steady himself, he tightened his grip on the hilt of his newly claimed sword. As soon as he had retrieved the sword from the museum, he had run to this room. Every inch of it — walls, floor, and ceiling — was covered in prophecies about the Underland, this gloomy warring world far beneath New York City, which had consumed Gregor's life for the past year. Bartholomew of Sandwich, the man who had founded the city of Regalia, had carved the prophecies some four centuries ago. While most of his words were for the benefit of the Regalians, they also made reference to many of the giant creatures who lived in the neighboring lands down here — the bats, the cockroaches, the spiders, the mice, and, most often, the rats. Oh, and Gregor. Several were about Gregor. But they didn't call him by his name. In the prophecies, he was known as "the warrior. He'd wanted to be completely alone when he first read this prophecy. Everyone had taken such pains to keep its contents from him in the last few months that he had known it must say something awful. And he had wanted to be able to Gregor and the Code of Claw to the awfulness without anyone watching him. Cry, if he needed to cry. Scream, if he needed to scream. But it turned out it didn't really matter, because he'd barely reacted at all. You've got to understand it," he told himself. So he forced himself to focus on the precisely chiseled letters again. As he reread the words, it was as if he could actually hear a clock ticking along with the lines. It was, after all, "The Prophecy of Time. The war has been declared, Your ally been ensnared. It is now or it is never. Break the code or die forever. Time is running Gregor and the Code of Claw Running out Running out. To the warrior give my blade. But do not forget the ticking Or the clicking, clicking, clicking. While a rat's tongue may be flicking, With its feet it does the tricking. For the raw and not the jaw Makes the Code of Claw. Time is standing Gregor and the Code of Claw Standing still Standing still. Since the princess is the key to unlock the treachery, She cannot avoid the matching Or the scratching, scratching, scratching. When a secret plot is hatching, In the naming is the catching. Time is turning back Turning back Turning back. Gregor and the Code of Claw the monster's blood is spilled, When the warrior has been killed, you must not ignore the rapping, or the tapping, tapping, tapping. The ticking stopped with the words. Gregor closed his eyes as that one phrase hammered in his brain: When the warrior has been killed That was it, obviously. The part that nobody had wanted to tell him. When the warrior has been killed Not even Ripred — and you had to figure that rat was used to breaking bad news to people after all those years of fighting in wars. When the warrior has been killed Not even Luxa — who was only twelve, yet seemed much older because she was a queen and had lost her parents and all. What was it that she had said to him on the edge of the cliff a few hours ago? Because if the tables were turned I'd never forgive you in a million years. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laundry room of their apartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who had saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm completely dooming to annihilation everyone who's helped me down here, but I'm really not up for this whole war thing anymore. So, fly you high, you know? When the warrior has been killed It simply didn't feel real. Any of it. Maybe it was because he was so tired. Gregor hadn't slept in days. Not since Gregor and the Code of Claw he'd watched the rats murder hundreds of mice in a pit at the base of Gregor and the Code of Claw volcano in the Firelands. He'd fallen unconscious for a while from the poisonous fumes the volcano had emitted when it erupted. Did that count as sleep? But it had been only a short time before he'd come to and waded through deep ash in search of his friends. Before he could Gregor and the Code of Claw experience the joy of finding them, he'd learned that Thalia, the sweet little bat who had mistakenly been caught up in the ill-fated trip, had suffocated as she tried to escape the volcano. Hazard, Luxa's seven-year-old cousin who had planned on bonding with Thalia, had been so distraught they'd had to sedate him. Later, when they had finally found some clean air on a cliff overlooking the jungle, Gregor had volunteered to keep watch while the others rested. On the flight home, packed onto Ares's back with Boots, Hazard, their cockroach friend, Temp, and a heavily drugged mouse, Cartesian, he had been unable to sleep. Now he was numb When the warrior has been killed And unable to muster any real emotional response to the prophecy. Only after all that had happened, he just didn't have it in him. Maybe in a couple days. If I last that long On the good side, Boots and his mom might make it out of the Underland alive. It looked like Boots, who was known to the giant cockroaches as "the princess," had some important role to play in breaking this Code of Claw thing. But the prophecy didn't call for anyone else's death. Wait, yes it did. When the monster's blood is spilled After what Gregor had witnessed in the last few days, he couldn't imagine anyone being the monster but the Bane. The enormous white rat, whose life Gregor had spared as a baby, had grown up to be a vicious leader consumed with hatred and was at least somewhat insane. Life had twisted and tormented that fragile rat pup into a monster, but there was no helping the Bane now. He had given the order to wipe out the mice and there was no telling what he would do next. He had to be stopped. In the Overland, he might be imprisoned for life or something. But that wouldn't be an option in the Underland. Down here, he would have to be Gregor and the Code of Claw. Eat something at least," he thought. An army of rats would be here soon. Ares had flown over them on their way back to Regalia. Gregor should be getting ready. He knew he had to fight. But he seemed frozen in place, as if he had become part of the stone, too. He remembered something he'd seen on a field trip he'd made to the Cloisters in New York City. It was an old museum filled with medieval stuff. One room held Gregor and the Code of Claw. On top of each tomb was a life-size image of the dead person carved in stone. There was this one guy — had it been Gregor and the Code of Claw knight? In fact, he'd been lying in almost the exact position Gregor was in now. I've turned to stone and I'm Gregor and the Code of Claw good as dead. How perfect that the sword under Gregor's hands had once belonged to Sandwich and would now carry out his visions. How perfect and horrible the whole thing was. The door swung open softly and footsteps crossed to him. How fare you? The old man's voice sounded as exhausted as Gregor felt. He probably hadn't had much sleep, either. As head of the Regalian council, Vikus was overworked, anyway. His wife, Solovet, who'd been in charge of the Regalian army until recently, was about to go on trial for ordering research that had created a plague, and Luxa, his granddaughter, was in terrible danger in the Firelands.