The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

Edward Tulane is a rabbit.  A figurine and a toy.  He is the companion of a very rich little girl.  And he has the dignity his position affords him.  But his position is not as secure as he thinks.  While on a trip with his little girl on the RMS Queen Mary, he falls overboard into the Atlantic.  He rests on the ocean floor for quite a while.  After most of a year, a storm tosses him into a fishing net.  The fisherman takes him home to his wife, who dresses him as a girl rabbit and sings to him everyday.  The Woman’s daughter thinks the situation is ridiculous and tosses him in the garbage, which leads to him being put in a dump.  From there he finds himself the property of a hobo, who tells stories at night to other hobos. Then he lives with a little boy and his tubercular sister until she dies.  In anger at this sister’s death, he damages the rabbit.  He tries to get him fixed-up, but cannot afford the repairs and lets the toymaker keep him for sale.  A woman comes in the store to look around and spies the rabbit.  She is the little girl, grown up now with her own daughter, who originally owned the toy.