Ragweed
4 months old
Deer mouse
Golden Mouse
Clever
Blinker
White mouse
House mouse
Inexperienced
Clutch
Deer mouse
Green fur on head
Earring
“a mouse has to do what a mouse has to do.”
Smart
Silversides
House/stray cat
Pres. of FEAR (Felines Enraged About Rodents.)
Clever
Graybar
Clever
Vice president of FEAR
Lives in the sewer
Stray cat
Sly
Clutch’s Ford Mustang is important to Ragweed because it’s where Clutch and Ragweed first meet.
Cafe’ Independent is Clutch and Ragweed’s new club
Protagonist/Antagonist
Protagonist=Ragweed, Clutch & Blinker (beginning).
Antagonist=Silversides, Graybar,& Blinker (end).
Survival
Secrecy
Friendship
Silversides and Graybar come in to Café Independent and try to destroy it but the mice defeat them with a hose filled with tons and tons of water.
PROBLEM : The cats destroyed The Cheese Squeeze Club.
SOLUTION: They build a new SECRET club.
The third person is telling the story
Mine: Why can’t they all get along?
Ragweed: I just don’t know why they fight.
Clutch: Let’s just work it all out dude’s and duddette’s.
Silversides: Why can’t mice just leave town already.
CAUSE: Silversides saw mice walking in the new club.
EFFECT: She knows where it is.
InexperiencedClever Sly
The meeting of Clutch and Ragweed.
The end of The Cheese Squeeze Club.
Blinker escapes.
The building of Café Independent.
Afterwards
Blinker and Clutch stay in a relationship.
Author and illustrator
Avi Brian Floca
The Poppy Series
Ragweed
Poppy
Poppy and Ereth
Ereth’s Birthday
Poppy and Rye
Poppy’s Return
Other Avi books
The Fighting Ground
Encounter at Easton
The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle
The Barn
Never Mind!
Blue Heron