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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 aIn 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.(less)