Together the mice transform an abandoned bookstore into a cool new club, the Cafe Independent, and plan a blowout-and cat-free-opening night. In so doing, Ragweed learns to trust himself and take charge of his destiny. The third book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medalwinning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medalwinning artist Brian Floca. Through these friends, he discovers a world where courage and loyalty are the keys to survival.

Ragweed befriends hipster band members Clutch, Dipstick and Lugnut as well as Blinker, a timid and vulnerable pet-store mouse. BUY NOW FOR A CHEAP PRICE References Avi. Poppy and Ereth journeys out to tell Ragweeds family that he is dead, but their home is flooded with beavers, making it hard to pass the message. Silversides and club vice president Graybar, stalks her prey relentlessly. Ragweed was the daring and foolish fiancé of Poppy, but before they got married, he dies after an owl killed him. As for that annoying raccoon, he keeps getting in the way.

Founder and president of F.E.A.R.(Felines Enraged About Rodents), an organization dedicated to keeping cats on top, people in the middle, and mice on the bottom. When he asks the mouses name, she replies, 'Poppy.' The story of Ragweed comes to Poppys aid, and how Poppy comes to his, is how their rousing and fateful friendship begins. The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with illustrations throughout by Caldecott. Long before Ragweed finds his way to Dimwood Forest and to Poppy, he leaves his family and serene country home behind and sets off by train for the big city, a place fraught with cars, buses, music, pleasure, excitement, attitude and danger-chiefly in the form of cats! Silversides, for instance, is an urbane specimen in a pink polyvinyl collar studded with diamond-like sequins. The first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medalwinning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medalwinning artist Brian Floca, is available as an ebook for the first time A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. A prequel to Avi's award-winning Poppy, this is the story of Ragweed, the mouse Poppy loved and lost.

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