<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 22460783 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Runaway Ralph </Td> </Tr> <P> The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965 . </P> <P> Ralph is a mouse who lives in the run - down Mountain View Inn, a battered resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California . Ralph longs for a life of danger and speed, wishing to get away from his relatives, who worry about the mice colony being discovered . One day a boy named Keith Gridley and his family visit the hotel on their way through California . Keith leaves a toy motorcycle on his bedside table . While Keith is away, Ralph attempts to ride it, but cannot figure out how to start it . Startled by a telephone ring, both Ralph and the motorcycle fall into a metal wastebasket . </P>

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