Ragweed (Tales from Dimwood Forest)

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Summary: Ragweed rocks, cats drool!
Review: Ragweed is a country mouse and he is going to explore the world. He catches a train and sets off to the city. There he meets two mice named Clutch and Blinker, he also meets some enemies named Silversides and Graybar (Silversides and Graybar are cats.) Silversides and Graybar make a club called F.E.A.R. (Felines Enraged About Rodents.)
Read more to know how Ragweed saves Mouse Town from those vicious cats.

If you think excitement, happiness, comedy, and suspense makes a good book, then I recommend you read Ragweed. What I like about Ragweed is that it has lots and lots of suspense. I can't wait to read Poppy (the next book).


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Summary: A FANASTIC BOOK !!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Courage, adventure, determination: If you like these qualities in a book, then you will definitely love Ragweed. By the time you stop reading, you'll be waist deep in the characters own problems.
Ragweed, the main character, is always in trouble. Imagine a run down town filled with mice. Pretty simple, but then put in a group of angry cats, who will take any chance to abolish all mice in the town. F.E.A.R. (Felines Enraged About Rodents). Then things start to get a little harder.
Ragweed, is a simple country mouse, wants to travel the world to see what's beyond his small brook home. So he says good bye to his family and starts his journey. He hops aboard the next train to wherever it goes. Little does he know what's ahead of him.

In this little run down town, he manages to have a little bit of luck on his side. The fist time he encounters F.E.A.R., deadliest worker, Silversides, the president of F.E.A.R., he is lucky enough to stumble onto a mouse's home, who pulls him in just in time. Later he finds out that the name of this mouse is Clutch. He also finds other friends: Dipstick, Lugnut and a timed little mouse called Blinker.

One funny thing that I have noticed from the beginning of Ragweed when he first comes to town is that most of the characters is that all the mice's names are car parts.
If I were to give this book a rating I would give it a ten out of ten. It has everything a book needs: friendship, bravery, determination, adventure, as well as some comedy. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes any kind of animal story at all.

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Summary: really good!
Review: In Avi�s prequel to �Poppy� (1995) and �Poppy and Rye� (1998), Ragweed the mouse leaves his family in the country and hops a train, winding up in the town of Amperville. There he meets mice that live in broken-down vehicles and are named for car parts: Clutch, Lugnut, Dipstick, Blinker, Windshield, and Foglight. They are being threatened by F.E.A.R., Felines Enraged About Rodents, a two-cat termination team consisting of cranky Silversides and her subordinate Graybar. Ragweed urges the musical mice to band together to replace their F.E.A.R.-destroyed dance club, and sets up a combat plan for the expected attack by F.E.A.R. The characters are not one-dimensional, the heroes aren�t always laudable and you feel a little pity for the villains. The plot, while not gripping, is exciting and entertaining. Brian Floca�s detailed black-and-white drawings add to the atmosphere of the story. I have not read the other books in the series and I feel this book stands alone well. However, I found the constant use of the �cool� language in the conversation of the mice very irritating. That�s not how I want my children and students to speak and write, and I think it will date the book. Recommended for intermediate level readers (grades 3-6).

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Summary: The runaway mouse
Review: In the story Ragweed is by the author Avi. It is about a mouse which decides to explore the New World. He wants to see the lights, people, and excitment. He ended up in a city called Amperville. He thought it was a nice town until he figured that many cats live there and are in search for mice. With Ragweed, Blinker, and Clutch they build a new club named Cafe Independent. Read the exciting and adventurous story of Ragweed on his suicide run for the city. If I was in confusing in reading a book, I would recommand this book. It is very well written and high vocabulary. The story was well planned out and I am sure it took a lot of time for the author to think of such a story. The illustrations are incredibly magnificent and helped in the understanding of the bood. This book will fill you with thrills and suspence.

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Summary: Ragweed
Review: Ragweed by Avi is a great book about a country mouse. He travels to a city called Amperville where he finds new friends and enemies. He and his fellow city mice must avoid two cats (Silversides and Graybar) and their club F.E.A.R. Ragweed meets a band called the Be-Flat Tires and Blinker, who was originally an experimental mouse. I liked this book because it had great pictures so you knew what the mice and cats looked like. It was also good because it had a nice storyline and nice characters. Avi and Brian Floca did a great job.

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Summary: A FANASTIC BOOK !!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This was a amazing book! I loved it! Iam 10 and I read "Erith's birthday" so I read "ragweed" It was Awsome! though i was very sad once i read "poppy"