Underneath - Appelt

News from Vermont's Times Argus via San Antonio's Vincent Davis' review.   This is Kathi Appelt's first young adult novel The Underneath, Simon & Shuster Children's Publishing, $16.99, chosen as a 2008 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. "The story unfolds under a porch in the Piney Woods of East Texas, where a calico cat and her two kittens hide from becoming alligator bait with an unlikely ally, an abused hound dog. Ancient, mythological creatures, a menacing hunter and danger inhabit the mysterious world that the four animals hide from in a dank and dark place." Read more at http://www.timesargus.com/article/20081119/FEATURES12/811190303/-1/RSS14