Poppy's Return

by Avi

  Credits

  Cover art © 2005 by Brian Floca

  Cover design by Jennifer Bankenstein

  Copyright

  POPPY’S RETURN. Text copyright © 2005 by Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Brian Floca. The illustrations are drawn with Eberhard Faber Design Ebony pencils on Stonehenge paper. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Avi, 1937-

  Poppy’s return / by Avi ; illustrated by Brian Floca.— 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: 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.

  ISBN-10: 0-06-000014-7 — ISBN-13: 978-0-06-000014-1

  EPub Edition © March 2018 ISBN 9780062696366

  [1. Family problems—Fiction. 2. Prejudices—Fiction. 3. Mothers and sons—Fiction. 4. Mice—Fiction. 5. Skunks—Fiction. 6. Porcupines—Fiction.] I. Floca, Brian, ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.A928Pop 2005

  2004030054

  [Fic]—dc22

  CIP

  AC

  First Harper edition, 2006

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