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.
www.harpercollinschildrens.com
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
About the Publisher
Australia
HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty. Ltd.
Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street
Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
www.harpercollins.com.au
Canada
HarperCollins Canada
2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor
Toronto, ON M4W 1A8, Canada
www.harpercollins.ca
New Zealand
HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand
Unit D1, 63 Apollo Drive
Rosedale 0632
Auckland, New Zealand
www.harpercollins.co.nz
United Kingdom
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF, UK
www.harpercollins.co.uk
United States
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
195 Broadway
New York, NY 10007
www.harpercollins.com