![]() ![]() She worries about sharing food with her friends and eating certain kinds of foods, afraid of getting sick or food poisoning. Raina begins having regular stomachaches that keep her home from school. ![]() Even a year later, when she is in fifth grade, she fears getting sick. Young Raina is 9 when she throws up for the first time that she remembers, due to a stomach bug. Aided by Small’s lively illustrations, Appelt intricately weaves these animals’ ancient stories into Puck’s survival saga to produce a magical tale of betrayal, revenge, love and the importance of keeping promises. Somehow Puck escapes after promising his dying mother he will find Sabine and free Ranger, but he’s on his own in a bayou teeming with mysterious creatures. The kittens are safe from Ranger’s evil master Gar Face as long as they remain hidden, but Puck ventures out “straight into the terrible hands of Gar Face,” who does his best to drown both the curious kitten and his mother. He happily shares the Underneath with the cat and her two kittens, Sabine and Puck. Seeking shelter, a homeless pregnant cat responds to the “bluesy” baying of a hound named Ranger who lives chained under the porch of a shack in the woods of the East Texas bayou. When fate separates them, an old hound dog and two foster kittens survive the dangers of the bayou to find one another. ![]()
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