BY Emily

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