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Poppy

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Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner * ALA Notable Book * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice * School Library Journal Best Book

“This exciting story is richly visual. The underlying messages, to challenge unjust authority and to rely on logic and belief in oneself, are palatably blended with action and suspense.” — School Library Journal

In the second one book in the Tales of Dimwood Forest by Newbery Medal-winning creator Avi, a tiny deer mouse named Poppy dares to get up to a tyrannical owl.  The story is accompanied by inviting illustrations from Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca.

Poppy knew she was once taking a risk following her beloved Ragweed to Bannock Hill, but a night of dancing with the handsome golden mouse was once just too tempting. So when Ragweed is scooped up by the sinister owl, Mr. Ocax, who rules over Dimwood forest, she’s devastated. Her whole life she was once warned of Mr. Ocax’s evil ways…how could she have been so foolish to put herself and Ragweed at risk?

To make matters worse, when Poppy attempts to move with her circle of relatives to a different a part of the woods where the food supply is richer, Mr. Ocax refuses to let them go. In spite of what she’s been led to consider for years, Mr. Ocax isn’t as strong as he wants the mice to think he’s. Armed with the bravery, gumption, and wit of a hero, Poppy embarks on a dangerous quest—joined by the irascible but lovable porcupine, Ereth—to defeat Mr. Ocax and lead her circle of relatives to a better home.

A perennially popular story of courage and determination, Poppy is a fixture on state award lists and in classrooms across the country.


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