Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner * ALA Notable Book * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice * School Library Journal Best Book In the second book in the Tales of Dimwood Forest by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi, a tiny deer mouse named Poppy ...
Poppy is young, beautiful and clever – and working as a parlourmaid in the de Vere family's country house. Society, it seems, has already carved out her destiny. But Poppy's life is about to be thrown dramatically off course.
The corn poppy rapidly became a symbol of agriculture and fertility, the opium poppy of sleep, hallucination and, perhaps, death, but it is not always clear which one is being referred to. Normally the likelihood is that if the flowers ...
Feeling easier in her conscience, she mounted the stairs to tell her prisoner the good news. Poppy was lying, as usual, with her face to the wall. Greta approached the bed. “Frau Plummett,” she said, and Poppy twisted around, ...
With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.
... stuck on the sidelines without her shin guards.” Hannah felt stuck on the sidelines too, always waiting until everyone else was taken care of first. “Then let us out and we'll walk.” “That's silly. You're already in the car.” Her mom ...
In 1914-15 England, fifteen-year-old Poppy works as a parlormaid until she is transformed by forbidden love and a war that sends her to the front line as a nurse.
Allegra Alexander, a once-beautiful, once-young actress struggling to come to terms with the news that she has six months to live, is befriended by a little red-haired girl named Poppy.