Excerpts are included from the books Poppy & Rye and Poppy's Return.
Originally published: New York : Orchard Books, 1995.
NOTE
Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 4 14795
Summary
A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.