The small brown mouse named Ralph who was hiding under the grandfather clock did not have much longer to wait before he could ride his motorcycle.
An edition of Runaway Ralph
(1970)
Runaway Ralph
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by Beverly Cleary
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Ralph decided to run away. Nobody understood his pride in his shiny, red, mouse-sized motorcycle, and how he needed freedom to ride it. Ralph's mother felt it was too dangerous, and his younger brothers and sisters pestered him to wheel them about on it.
Ralph wanted to get away from them all and have an adventure! His destination was a summer camp nearby where he hoped that he could find delicious crumbs from peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches.
But Ralph was flung into all kinds of peril. Danger stalked him in the sinister shape of Catso, the camp cat. The Ralph was kidnapped by campers and stuck in a cage! Could Ralph escape?
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Runaway Ralph
2000, HarperTrophy
School & Library Binding
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Runaway Ralph
1998 09, Scholastic Inc
Paperback
in /languages/eng
- School Market edition
0590664875 9780590664875
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La escapada de Ralph
1997, Editorial Noguer
School & Library Binding
in /languages/spa
0833593528 9780833593528
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Runaway Ralph
1991-11, Avon Camelot
Paperback
in /languages/eng
- 1st Avon Camelot Printing (13)
0380709538 9780380709533
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Runaway Ralph
1989, Morrow Junior Books
Library Binding
in /languages/eng
- Morrow Eagle Library Edition (21)
0688317014 9780688317010
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Runaway Ralph
1985 05, Yearling
Mass Market Paperback
in /languages/eng
- 8th Dell printing
0440475198 9780440475194
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Runaway Ralph
1974 08, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in /languages/eng
- Archway Paperback edition
0671296116 9780671296117
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Runaway Ralph is the second in a children's novel trilogy written by Beverly Cleary. First published in 1970, it is the last book by Cleary that Louis Darling illustrated before his death. The book features the titular character, Ralph S. Mouse, a house mouse that can talk to humans, and goes on adventures on his miniature motorcycle.
The book was given the Nene Award by the Hawaii Library Association in 1972.
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