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.

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.

"Mandy and James are helping prepare for the school play--but behind the scenes a family of squirrels is causing trouble ..."

It's Christmas at Animal Ark, and Mandy and James have an idea: a party for all the pets in Welford. But when a wounded stray sheepdog turns up, Mandy finds it hard to keep her holiday spirit while trying to save its life.

A young girl and boy befriend an orphaned rabbit.

"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. When Mandy's dad diagnoses an Old English sheepdog puppy as deaf, Mandy feels sorry for it. But it isn't until she finds another sheepdog puppy weak and abandoned that she and James begin to get suspicious. Could a local breeder be mistreating these poor puppies?"--P. [4] of cover.

Mandy and James wonder how to help the runaway gerbil they find by the river.

James is chosen to look after the school hamster during the summer, but someone vandalizes his garden and steals the poor little thing. Who's behind the theft? City kids visiting the town or someone closer to home?

Mandy's delighted when she spots a mother and baby raccoon on the roof of the house where she is staying, but discovers that she needs to keep them from her neighbors who wants them destroyed.