John McDonough
2) Ragweed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
"The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Holiday tale of a man who has lost all hope, an irrepressible child suffering from a terrible illness and the one small act of love and faith that will give them both the greatest gift of all."--Jacket.
6) Poppy
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
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.
10) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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.
11) Sunwing
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Shade, a young silverwing bat, is searching the countryside for his father when he discovers a huge glass building. When he flies inside, he finds a forest haven where, safe from predatory owls, hundreds of bats are finally living in the sunlight. But when he tries to find an exit, Shade quickly realizes that instead of a paradise, the building is really a prison. From there, bats are taken to laboratories, where they are fitted with bombs and used...
12) Jip: his story
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1998, 1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
14) Silverwing
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.