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Ralph S. Mouse

by Beverly Cleary

Ralph takes his curiosity to school

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    Author Beverly Cleary is a Newbery Medal winner

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Ralph takes his curiosity to school

Ralph’s escape from noisy cousins and a threatened mouse infestation leads him into a new human world: Ryan’s school. There, curiosity about what people do all day—and about the meaning of his middle initial—meets a challenge when the class tests his intelligence with a maze. The episode brings together the series’ familiar mouse-and-motorcycle setup with questions of confidence and how others judge ability. As the third and final Ralph S. Mouse novel, it also gives the school visit a place within Ralph’s larger series of adventures.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 9–12, as indicated in the supplied audience metadata.
  • Young readers interested in animal characters navigating human settings.
  • Readers following Ralph’s adventures in The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Runaway Ralph.

Themes

Curiosity about human lifeConfidence and self-doubtAnimals and human friendshipFamily pressures

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Book overview

In this third and final Ralph S. Mouse novel from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, Ralph heads to school to see what humans do all day . . . and to discover what the "S" in Ralph S. Mouse stands for!

With his rowdy cousins constantly wearing out his motorcycle and the Mountain View Inn manager threatening to take care of the mouse infestation once and for all, Ralph decides it's time to get away for a while. He convinces his human friend Ryan to take him along to school, where Ralph instantly becomes the center of attention.

But when Ryan's class decides to see how smart Ralph is by making him run a maze, the usually confident mouse starts to fret. What if he's not as clever as he thought?

Ralph S. Mouse is perfect for independent reading or for shared reading at home or in a classroom. This fun story is the third of a trilogy, along with The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Runaway Ralph, all inspired by the author's hope to create appealing books for boys and girls--and by the sight of her son playing with toy cars.

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