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The Underneath Paperback - 2010
by Kathi Appelt; David Small (Illustrator)
Abandoned and about to have kittens, a calico cat is befriended by a hound dog who urges her to raise her kittens underneath the porch of his owner's house, where they will be safe--as long as they stay in the Underneath. This harrowing yet sweet story won a Newbery Honor and was a National Book Award finalist. Illustrations.
Summary
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; David Small (Illustrator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1 Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, New York
- Date 2010-01-05
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781416950592 / 1416950591
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 10 to 14 years
- Grade levels 5 - 9
- Reading level 830
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- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Dogs, Cats
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007031969
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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"Kathi Appelt's novel, The Underneath, reads like a ballad sung."
-- Ashley Bryan, Hans Christian Anderson Award Nominee and Three-Time Coretta Scott King Award Medalist
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