The Underneath Hardcover | Pages: 313 pages

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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)

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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	:	First 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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Ratings: 3.95 From 9837 Users | 1819 Reviews

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I review lots of books. Oodles of caboodles of books. And a lot of the time my thoughts can basically be boiled down to very simple sentences. "Me like book. Book good." or conversely "Me no like book. Book bad." It takes a very special story to knock me out of this frame of mind. When you pick up a copy of The Underneath by Kathi Appelt and you read the words, "A novel like this only comes around every few decades," on the back cover you're forgiven if you scoff a little. Uh-huh. Suuuuuure it

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

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

"The Underneath" is overall a very interesting and unique book, and I enjoyed reading it. The time period bounces around to different years, specifically to the years of important events that happens in the story. The books meaning to me is about friendship, responsibility, and trust, three very important things. In the story there is a lonely, abused hound dog that is chained to an old house, and his owner is a despicable vile man that lives inside the old tilting house located in the middle of

Wow. What a book. What a story. What an amazing piece of writing.Now I admit it took me a while to read this one. While I definitely enjoyed sad animal stories as a child, now, with the occasional exception, I avoid them. And so, when I received a gorgeously packaged ARC of Kathi Appelts The Underneath, I admired it (as it is handsomely illustrated by David Small) , and then read the flap. An abandoned calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up dog. Nope. Not for

In alternating chapters and using alternating perspectives, Kathi Appelt spins a heartbreaking tale in The Underneath, following various creatures caught up in a dance of cruelty and kindness, love and hate, community and solitude. Weaving in and around one another, the various story strands here include that of a tiny calico cat, pregnant and abandoned by her human family; the hound-dog Ranger, chained up for years by his abusive owner, who in his loneliness adopts the cat and warns her of the