Alice's Farm

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 farms 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 farmers son, and other animals, including a majestic bald eagle. Here is a stunning celebration of life, the bitter and the sweet. Alice is some rabbita character readers will love for generations to come.

Wood is the author of the critically acclaimed middle grade series The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. She lives in Los Angeles, and also writes for television and film.