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Original Title:	The Underneath
ISBN:	1416950583 (ISBN13: 9781416950585)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Newbery Medal Nominee (2009), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2008)

The Underneath

Kathi Appelt

Hardcover | Pages: 313 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 9837 Users | 1819 Reviews

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There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath.

Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. And one kitten's one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning. For everyone who loves Sounder, Shiloh, and The Yearling, for everyone who loves the haunting beauty of writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers, Kathi Appelt spins a harrowing yet keenly sweet tale about the power of love — and its opposite, hate — the fragility of happiness and the importance of making good on your promises.

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Title	:	The Underneath
Author	:	Kathi Appelt
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 313 pages
Published	:	May 6th 2008 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Fantasy. Childrens. Middle Grade. Animals. Fiction. Young Adult

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I'm not really sure how to explain my feelings about this book. While I recognize that the writing is compelling and builds a great deal of suspense, I was just annoyed throughout the book. I'm also not convinced that this will be an attractive book to kids, who are the targeted audience, as far as marketing efforts go. And of course, the book has been nominated for the National Book Award and has all sorts of rumblings for the Newbery. I can only say I hope it doesn't win the Newbery. It would

My daughter read this book in school and went on and on about it for weeks. And, like a good mother, I responded with, "uh huh, that's nice dear" while really thinking about other things.Then I bought her a copy and decided to read it myself. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I couldn't believe my daughter liked it so much because she is an insane animal lover. Her whole world revolves around knowing and preserving every animal species alive today.But this is a good story, and probably more

Until the end (chapter 123 - one hundred and twenty-three!), this was at 2 stars. The pathetic and ridiculous "choose love" deus-ex-moccasin resolution pushed it over the edge. Here is a book that is 311 pages, 124 "chapters" (many of them are a page or less, and chapter 94 is 8 lines) and yet it just repeats and repeats itself. Often we just get "poetic" sentence fragments, just words without any direction. Omit needless words - omit needless chapters - omit needless books. Over and over (and

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for awhile, and then abandoned on the side of the road.This is the breathtaking opening sentence of The Underneath - a sentence that has already been over-quoted and will probably lose its luster once it is revealed as The Great Deceptor. What follows this ingenious sentence, however, is not nearly as captivating. Kathi Appelt's asinine debut novel is inexplicably receiving buzz as a contender for the Newbery Medal. Perhaps after

I found Appelt's comma-infused writing repetitive and very distracting. The writing, it was so full, round, globular, and it distracted. Distracted, it did. Yes. Very distracted, I was.Aside from that (which actually had me cursing aloud at more than one spot) I found the story to be very Newbery-like. With that many tragedies and the plethora of dead/evil parents, how can the committee resist? It's a shoe-in.I can see that the story was essentially sweet and ended in a hopeful fashion, but I



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