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This book was very different from most of the Animal Ark books I've read. This one had no "animal crisis", at least not a medical/safety one, like most of them do. Instead it focused on Mandy's new friend John and his project studying wild rabbits. The "main" plot of the book, the baby bunnies, were not really a part of the plot until more then halfway through. It was a nice change to have some family drama in the series, to have a kid struggling to adjust to new situations at home instead of everything always being about the animals, but it was a bit of a letdown that there wasn't the usual urgency of "will the animal live" or whatever. I liked the ending, how John finally had a way to keep the baby rabbits but at the same time take care of the problem of what to do with them while he is a way at school, and for once the bratty little Imogen was actually fairly nice. ( )