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When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend.

Accused and convicted of murder, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle decides to reveal what really happened aboard the Seahawk--a ship piloted by a tyrannical captain and crewed by mutinous seamen--during the summer of 1832.

Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr.

Continues the adventures of fifteen-year-old Maura, her younger brother Patrick, a young stowaway, and some unusual characters as they sail from England to the New World in 1851.

Perloo, a peaceful scholar who has been chosen to succeed Jolaine as leader of the furry underground people called the Montmers, finds himself in danger when Jolaine dies and her evil son seizes control of the burrow.

Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as mother to three young fox kits.

Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.

Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord s runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.

Ten writers reflect on special childhood moments and provide individual explanations of how they became writers.

McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.

In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.

In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie, in a picture book that evokes an actual silent movie.

Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as mother to three young fox kits.

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.

McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.

In 1880, Noah s aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.

In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.

Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.

Collects seven stories about middle school students who are at turning points in their lives, dealing with peer pressure, ghosts, unfair teachers, and a world where not all questions have logical answers.

Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.

Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg s hopes for popularity and Edward s mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.

The Books Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages.

A prequel to Avi's award-winning POPPY, this is the story of Ragweed, the mouse Poppy loved and lost.

When Chris's bike disappears on Halloween night he's sure that magic is somehow involved.

One of Newbery Honor author Avi's most popular middle-grade mysteries is available in paper once again.

Poppy, heartbroken over the loss of her beloved fiance, travels west through Dimwood Forest to inform his family.

There's trouble at Gray House, the girlhood home that Poppy left long ago.

Pete Saltz, the pudgy poet from S.

S.O.R. Losers by Avi.