![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I liked the courage of Ragweed-how he was willing to go on a big adventure, how he assimilated himself so fully into the culture of the city, and how we quickly transformed from country mouse, to city mouse, to revolutionary mouse. The mice in the city have car names-such as Dip Stick, Lugnut, Clutch, while Ragweed comes from a country community where all of the mice are named after plants. There he meets a cast of mice who live in fear under an organization headed by two cats (Silversides, a spoiled housecat and Graybar, an alley cat), which is actually named F.E.A.R. This book is the story of Ragweed, a four-month old country mouse who seeks adventure and hops on a train to the city. It suffers a bit in comparison to the other Poppy books which are truly fabulous. It is a fine book (as in OK)-Lachlan actually really loved it. This prequel to the Poppy series was written after the the series was completed. The narrator is nothing short of fabulous! I feel great comfort and familiarity every time his voices comes on to read to us again! Lachlan and I listened to this book as an audio book. In fact, the whole class fell in love with the books (I work at the school library during their library time, so I check out their books and I placed many holds on the Avi Poppy books.) Lachlan fell in love with the books and wanted to share them with us. Lachlan's 3rd grade teacher started reading the Poppy series by Avi to the class. ![]()
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