Ragweed, Avi
Ragweed, Avi
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Ragweed

Author: Avi

Series: Poppy #1

Narrator: John McDonough

Unabridged: 4 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/08/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

The first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medal–winning author Avi

A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is determined to see the world. He leaves his family and cozy country home and sets off by train for the big city. What wonders await him: music, excitement, new friends … and cunning, carnivorous cats!

Silversides is the purring president of F.E.A.R. (Felines Enraged About Rodents), a group dedicated to keeping cats on top, people in the middle, and mice on the bottom. Can Ragweed and his motley yet musical crew of city mice—Clutch, Dipstick, Lugnut, and Blinker—band together to fight their feline foe?

About Avi

Avi is the author of more than seventy books for children and young adults, including the 2003 Newbery medal winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead. He has won two Newbery Honors and many other awards for his fiction. He lives with his family in Denver, Colorado. Visit him at Avi-Writer.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on December 29, 2016

Read this one with my 11 year old. We both thought it was alright, but neither of us loved it. Would have given it 2 and a half stars if half stars were an option. She didn't really attach to any of the characters and I felt like something was off about the plot and structure. To be clear, we didn't......more

Goodreads review by Laurel on August 15, 2023

Wow that was the most greatest book ever! I love how ragweed goes on awesome adventures and meet some new friends I especially like how clutch encouraged him to do a lot of things great book!......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 19, 2015

This book had every bit of wit, charm and allegory that I praised Poppy for. Where Ocax leads a totalitarian regime over the mice, who have been brainwashed into complacence, the cat Silversides in the city of Amberville is absolutely intolerant and hateful towards mice, which she believes are the r......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on March 02, 2016

My three youngest 4,6,8 liked this book. They would probably want me to read it again. I thought it was a cute story. I got tired of the "groovy" language but I think the kids liked it. Overall it was fun and they loved the illustrations and kept asking for more.......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia on April 16, 2019

I just needed something silly to offset my other reading and my life and this was just that, silly! It was a refreshing and quick read. My favourite part was the fact that the mother mouse who was such a serious poet was creating a work titled "Cheese of Grass". I laughed out loud at that one.......more