Avi
2) The good dog
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 5
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
6) Poppy
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
Author
Series
Medieval mysteries (Avi) volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Anno: Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village; the Russians have occupied the land for as long as anyone can remember, but otherwise life is unremarkable. Patryk and his friends entertain themselves by coming up with dares until the Germans drop a bomb on the schoolhouse and the Great War comes crashing in. As control of the village falls from one nation to another, Jurek, the ringleader devises the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
From Newbery Medalist Avi comes the spine-tingling story of Tony Gilbert, who must solve a mystery surrounding the ghost of his uncle Charlie. For most of Tony Gilbert's life, he always thought of his uncle as 'Weird Uncle Charlie.' That is, until Uncle Charlie moves in with Tony and his family. He's still odd, of course-talking about spirits and other supernatural stuff-but Uncle Charlie and Tony become fast friends. Between eating ice cream and...
17) The player king
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is told by a mysterious friar that he, Lambert, is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne. Based on a true story.
18) Ragweed & Poppy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? This book tells their hilarious story! Adventurous golden mouse Ragweed is on a freight train leaving the city of Amperville. On his journey he meets Lotar, a young, annoying, and lost raccoon who's desperate to reunite with his mother. Though Ragweed doesn't really want to help the raccoon, by doing so he winds up in Dimwood Forest. Ragweed is now ready to strike off on his own, but it's not long...
19) Secret sisters
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida enters a small-town high school after years of attending a rural one-room schoolhouse, but the enthusiasm she and her new friends have for the modern world and modern ways pits them against the school's old-fashioned principal.
20) Prairie school
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Description
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.