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Awesome Animal Ark book! I've been wanting to read this one for a long time. It seems that it's the season for pregnant cats; Not only is Delilah, a beautiful Persian, carrying kittens, but Mandy finds a stray cat that is pregnant as well. Calling the stray tabby Blossom, Mandy and James start feeding her and looking after her, hoping that the kittens from both expectant mothers will be born nice and healthy. They are, but not long after the kittens are born, tragedy strikes, and Delilah is forced to stay at Animal Ark Hospital for awhile. How can her kittens survive without her? I loved Mandy's stubborn determination in this book (well, in all the AA books!), the small kittens would've certainly died without her and James feeding them and helping them so often. And I nearly laughed outloud when Mandy and James realized that all their fretting about keeping Blossom away from Delilah's kittens was for nothing, because Blossom wanted to foster-mother them! ( )

"At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need.
A stray tabby cat has turned up in Welford and Mandy is worried. The poor cat is about to have kittens, and she has no one to look after her. Bill Ward, the mailman, comes to the rescue, allowing her to live in his garden shed. But the tabby isn't the only cat in the neighbourhood having kittens - and some of the kittens need extra-special care. Will Mandy be able to help the kittens, and their mothers?" - jacket blurb.
This is a good series for advanced chapter book readers in grades 2 to 4. 139 pages, 9 chapters. ( )

Lexile: 550
Reading Recovery: 21
DRA: 28
Fountas Pinnel Guided Reading: M