Middle School Library - Book Reviews

On a normal day Fiver and his best friend Hazel, both only a year old, were out on a normal day feeding when across the river they found a sign and Fiver knows there is danger. Once safely back at the warren Fiver has a terrible dream of something horrible happening to the warren. Convincing Hazel that they have to go to the Chief Rabbit named Thearah to warn the rest but he does not believe them. The next morning, Hazel had decided with Fiver, Dandelion and Blackberry that any rabbit willing to leave with them including Bigwig who left the Owsla, a group of higher rabbits, will journey with them at moonrise. At moonrise a group of rabbits had gathered and were about to leave but were stopped by Captain Holly, leader of the Owsla, who thought they wanted to over throw the Chief Rabbit. But Bigwig scared him off and the group of Rabbits leaves. While Hazel leads the group of rabbits and takes advice from Fiver as of where to go, they all fight through adventures and attacks and miraculously survive to find a field of new strange rabbits. Fiver knows something is wrong and warns the others not to join the other rabbits but they do not listen. The group soon finds out what is wrong but what is it? The rabbits leave bringing with them a new member named Strawberry. At last they reach Watership Down but how will they survive there? They are all bucks so how will they mate? Will they all just slowly disappear? Will the Efrafa destroy them before they get a chance to live?

I loved Watership Down. This book was 426 pages long but I could and did read it in one day. It was one of the best books I have ever read and I have read a lot of books. Any person who loves adventure and a bit of suspense will surely like this book, guaranteed. Every person who loves animal stories won’t be able to put this book down. Richard Adams has a wonderful imagination but this book could almost be real.

Submitted by: Kate Reynolds