Avery Overman's Adventures In Underbed

Avery Overman has a very high temperature. In fact, his mom says he "burning up" and makes him stay in bed in the middle of the day. Avery doesn't like being treated like a baby, but he has to admit he isn't feeling very good. When he accidentally falls out of his covers, he notices how much nicer it looks under the bed: darker, quieter, and cooler. So he shimmies beneath the box spring...

...and discovers that Underbed is actually a bigger place than he ever imagined—a strange world filled with cattle rustlers and mobsters and robots and crocodiles, and a slippery menace called Copperhead who seems to be after Avery himself. His only hope of survival is a charming but mysterious protector who is never quite what he seems to be..

Wickedly funny, fast-paced, and suspenseful, Avery Overman's Adventures In Underbed is a 21st-century descendant of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz, with more crazy changes of scene than you'd get by slipping TV channels. It's a wild ride through sheer imagination, with an ending that warms the heart.