Lamar Public Library

Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

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 James leads Mandy to a badger nest he's been watching, they find that it has been deliberately destroyed. All that is left is an orphaned badger cub. Can they discover who did this cruel thing and will they be able to find a new home for the cub?

Sally the dog goes flying over a tree stump while playing chase in the yard and has to be rushed to the vet's office.

"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--

Mandy tries to show Tania Benster that her miniature horse deserves to be well treated.

Can Mandy and James turn an undersized piglet into a prizewinning pig?

The Hope household gains two new temporary members--young Polly, whose father is in the hospital, and her Shetland pony, Shona--giving Mandy Hope, an animal lover who helps her parents at their veterinary clinic, a new challenge: helping Polly overcome her fear of horses and finally learn to love her own pet.

While her parents treat an injured fox in their veterinary hospital, Mandy cares for the fox's cub and tries to stop a farmer from setting steel traps and organizing a fox hunt.

On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.