Jessica Vitalis
Featuring a unique twist on French mythology, The Rabbit’s Gift is set in a country where human babies are grown in cabbage-like plants…and delivered by rabbits. Fleurine, a twelve-year-old aspiring botanist and daughter of the Grand Lumière, secretly tries to grow the elusive purple carrots that humans trade for babies. She longs for a sibling, but Maman doesn’t want another child. What’s more, she believes science will upset the natural order and insists that Fleurine follow in her political footsteps. Meanwhile, the human demand for babies has dropped and the rabbits are starving. A runt named Quincy decides to take matters into his own paws and sets out for the city, determined to prove that you don’t have to be big to be a hero. When he inadvertently leads Fleurine back to the top-secret Warren, he sets off a string of events that pits them against each other and jeopardizes the future of the entire country––for rabbits and humans alike.
Publisher
Greenwillow (HarperCollins)
EAN/UPC or ISBN
9780063067462