The basis for an action adventure animé television series to launch in 2005, the first of five novels introduces the world of Arachnia, where thirteen-year-old Hunter Steele discovers a small band of elite warriors struggling to survive and to save Arachnia from the attack of giant insect mutants. Simultaneous.
Can't help but think (given the cover art) that this has already been done better as an animated series. If you want to read about falling to the center of the Earth and getting embroiled another society's issues/prophecy stuff then I point to "Gregor the Overlander" before this. Both series are accessible to a younger audience but this one comes off as a little, well, dumbed down for kids.