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    The Great Rabbit Rescue
    The Great Rabbit Rescue
    The Great Rabbit Rescue
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    The Great Rabbit Rescue

    By Katie Davies and Hannah Shaw

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     The kids from The Great Hamster Massacre are back—and on a rabbit rescue mission!

    Joe has gone to live with his dad, leaving behind his beloved pet rabbit. Anna and Suzanne try to look after it for him, but when the rabbit becomes ill, they're convinced it's because it's missing Joe. Now Joe is sick too. The girls are certain that Joe and the rabbit will die unless they are reunited soon...But can Anna and Tom and Suzanne pull off The Great Rabbit Rescue in time?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeach Lane Books
    Release dateDec 6, 2011
    ISBN9781442433212
    The Great Rabbit Rescue
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    Katie Davies

    Katie Davies knows a thing or two about animal disasters. She is the author of The Great Dog Disaster, The Great Cat Conspiracy, The Great Rabbit Rescue, and her first book, The Great Hamster Massacre, which was inspired by true events—when she was twelve years old, after a relentless begging campaign, she was given two Russian Dwarf hamsters for Christmas. She has yet to recover from what happened to those hamsters. Katie lives with her family in North London. Visit her at KatieDaviesBooks.com.

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      A humorous novel but kids should know that staring at the sun is no laughing matter. Twice the author mentions the characters staring at the sun and they make light of warnings that it will blind you. Perhaps Anna should look up solar retinopathy in her dictionary.

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    The Great Rabbit Rescue - Katie Davies

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    For Sam

    Thanks to my Mum and Dad, and to my husband,

    Alan, for reading (and reading) it.

    And thanks also to my agent, Clare Conville, and to

    Venetia Gosling and everyone at Simon and Schuster.

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

    www.SimonandSchuster.com This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

    Text copyright © 2010 by Katie Davies

    Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Hannah Shaw Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd. Published by arrangement with Simon and Schuster UK Ltd.

    First U.S. edition 2011

    All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. BEACH LANE BOOKS is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Davies, Katie, 1978–

    The great rabbit rescue / Katie Davies ; illustrated by Hannah Shaw.—1st U.S. ed.

    p. cm.

    Summary: When Joe goes to live with his father across town and must leave behind his beloved pet rabbit, his friends Anna and Suzanne try to take care of it for him, but when the rabbit becomes ill and then Joe follows suit, the girls are certain that both will die unless they are reunited.

    ISBN 978-1-4424-2064-9 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-1-4424-3321-2 (eBook) [1. Rabbits as pets—Fiction. 2. Sick—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction.]

    I. Shaw, Hannah, ill. II. Title.

    PZ7.D283818Gs 2012

    [Fic]—dc22

    2011008326

    Contents

    Chapter 1: A Real Rescue

    Chapter 2: Anna to Suzanne

    Chapter 3: The Old Rabbit and the New Cat

    Chapter 4: You Be the Dog

    Chapter 5: A Rabbit Pie Chart

    Chapter 6: Joe-Down-the-Street’s Dad’s Van

    Chapter 7: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    Chapter 8: The Spare Seat

    Chapter 9: Keeping the Rabbit Alive

    Chapter 10: The Tale of the Fierce Bad Rabbit

    Chapter 11: Rabbit Food

    Chapter 12: Joe’s Down the Street Again

    Chapter 13: Purloining Miss Matheson’s Parsley

    Chapter 14: Till Death Do Us Part

    Chapter 15: Rabbits Don’t Scream

    Chapter 16: A Real-Life Rescue

    Chapter 17: The Poisoned Parsley

    This is a story about Joe-down-the-street, and why he went away, and how he got rescued. Most stories I’ve read about people getting rescued aren’t Real-Life Stories. They’re Fairy Stories, about Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel, and people like that. And they probably aren’t true, because in Real Life people don’t prick their fingers on spindles very much and fall asleep for a hundred years. And if they did, they probably wouldn’t wake up just because someone gave them a kiss on the cheek, like Sleeping Beauty did. Even if the person who kissed them was a Prince.

    Because, in Real Life, when people are really deep asleep, you have to shake them, and shout, WAKE UP! in their ear, and hit them on the head with the xylophone sticks. Otherwise they don’t wake up at all. My Dad doesn’t, anyway. And nor does my little brother, Tom. He falls asleep on the floor, and he doesn’t wake up when Mom carries him upstairs and puts him in his pajamas and stands him up at the toilet. Not even once when he peed on his feet.

    Tom is five. He’s four years younger than me. I’m nine. My name is Anna.

    Also, in Real Life, people don’t let down their hair from towers for other people to climb up and rescue them and things, like happens in Rapunzel. Because you can’t really climb up hair very well, especially not when it’s still growing on someone’s head. You can’t climb up Emma Hendry’s hair, anyway, because Graham Roberts once tried to, in PE, when Emma was up the wall bars. And Emma fell off, and Mrs. Peters wasn’t pleased. And neither was Emma. She was winded. Emma’s got the longest hair in school. She can sit on it if she wants to. It’s never been cut. Mrs. Peters sent a note home to Emma’s Mom because Emma’s hair kept getting caught in doors, and drawers, and things like that, and she said, Emma Hendry, that hair is a Death Trap!

    Which is true. Especially with Graham Roberts around. So now Emma’s hair gets tied up, and on PE days it has to go under a net.

    Anyway, this story isn’t a Made-Up Story, or a Fairy Story like Sleeping Beauty or Rapunzel or anything like that. It’s a Real Rescue Story. And that means that everything in it Actually Happened. I know it did, because I was there. And so was my little brother, Tom. And so was my friend Suzanne Barry, who lives next door.

    This is what it says in my dictionary about what a rescue is . . .

    rescue [res-kew] verb

    to help someone or something out of a

    dangerous, harmful, or unpleasant situation

    And this is what it says in my friend Suzanne’s dictionary . . .

    rescue [res-kew] informal

    to free or deliver from confinement or peril

    Mom said that me and Suzanne and Tom were wrong about Joe-down-the-street and that he was never even in any danger or peril in the first place.

    She said, "Anna, Joe has gone to live with his Dad because he wants to. He definitely does not need to be rescued!"

    But moms don’t always know everything about who might need rescuing. Because once, when I was in Big Trouble for falling through the shed roof in the back lane by mistake, I decided that I didn’t like living at our house anymore, and I told Mom, I wish I lived with Mrs. Rotherham up the road!

    And Mom said, So do I!

    So I packed my bag, and I went off up the road.

    When I got to Mrs. Rotherham’s house, I decided I didn’t really want to live there. But I had to by then, because that’s what I’d said. So I went in. And I sat in the window by myself and stared out and didn’t speak. And, after ages, there was a knock on the door. It was Tom, in his Batman pajamas and his Bob the Builder hard hat.

    And Mrs. Rotherham said, Hello, Tom. Are you all on your own?

    And Tom said, I am Batman and Bob the Builder. I want Anna to come home.

    So I did. And that was a rescue, really, what Tom did. Because, even though I like Mrs. Rotherham a lot, I didn’t really want to live with her. Because I’d rather live in my own house, with Tom. And Mom and Dad. And Andy and Joanne. (That’s my other brother and my sister. They aren’t in this story because they’re older than me and Tom, and they don’t really care about rabbits, or rescues.) Anyway, if Tom hadn’t rescued me, I would probably still be living with Mrs. Rotherham now. So I’m glad he did. Because, for one thing, Mrs. Rotherham’s house is at the wrong end of the road.

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