In Maryrose Wood's stunning middle-grade novel, Alice's Farm, a
brave young rabbit must work with her natural predators to save her
farmland home and secretly help the farm's earnest but incompetent new
owners.
When a new family moves into Prune Street Farm, Alice and the other
cottontails are cautious. The new owners are from the city; the family
and their dog are not at all what the rabbits expect, and soon Alice is
making new friends and doing things no rabbit has done before. When she
overhears a plan by a developer to run the family off and bulldoze the
farm, Alice comes up with a plan, helped by the farmer's son, and other
animals, including a majestic bald eagle.
Here is a stunning celebration of life, the bitter and the sweet. Alice
is some rabbit***--***a character readers will love for generations to
come.