I remember a plot, does any one remember the book?

[OrwellwasRight]

This is kind of desperate, but what do I have to lose?

OK, so when I was younger, probably middle school age, I read a book that I loved, but now I can't remember what it was. I always thought it was Ursula LeGuin, but I have reviewed the plot summaries of all her books and can't find it. So I am wondering if anyone can help.

The story involves a two young people, a boy and a girl. They live on some other planet. They are exploring a cave, which seems to have tree stumps all over the place, and later they find out that the stumps are not stumps or racks, but creatures. i forget where the plot goes from there, but does this sound familiar to anyone at all? I'd say I have been trying to find and re=read this book for at least 15 years.

[Fumesucker]

1. The best place for your kind of question is rec.arts.sf.written

It's a usenet newsgroup and you can find it and subscribe through Google.

At least a thousand times more active than this forum.

[Orrex]

2. I thought that usenet was phased out along with the Eniac

Shows what I know.

I used to be a frequent poster in half a dozen newsgroups, but a few years back I had trouble with my service provider and couldn't access the groups reliably anymore, so I went elsewhere for my online discussions and never got around to going back.

[Fumesucker]

3. I check in from time to time on rec.arts.sf.written..

I also like soc.history.what-if for alternate history, they have some lovely arguments about the finer points of history.

For instance here is one Point Of Departure:

POD: Paul Anka in 1967 decides to holiday somewhere other than the south
of France. He therefore does not hear the then-current French pop song,
"Comme d'habitude" ("As Usual") performed by Claude Francois with music by
Jacques Revaux and lyrics by Gilles Thibault, does not fly to Paris to
negotiate the rights to the song, and does not later write his own lyrics
for Sinatra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra_Doctrine

Consequences? Fewer karaoke-related killings, especially in the
Philippines?

[OrwellwasRight]

4. Awesome. Thanks for the tip!

And the Sinatra Doctrine. I had no idea such a thing even existed.

[scubadude]

5. Wasn't there something like that in one of the Ender Books?

Kinda rings a bell...

Scuba