Description: Long before Ragweed finds his way to Dimwood Forest and to Poppy, he leaves his family and serene country home behind and sets off by train for the big city, a place fraught with cars, buses, music, pleasure, excitement, attitude, and danger -- chiefly in the form of cats! Silversides, for instance, is an urbane specimen in a pink polyvinyl collar studded with diamond-like sequins. She is also founder and president of F.E.A.R., or Felines Enraged About Rodents, an organization dedicated to keeping cats on top, people in the middle, and mice on the bottom. Silversides and club V.P. Graybar stalk their prey relentlessly. Ragweed aligns himself with hipster band members Clutch, Dipstick, and Flywheel -- and befriends Blinker, a timid and vulnerable pet-store mouse. Together the mice transform an abandoned bookstore into a cool new club, the Cafe Independent, and plan a blowout -- and cat-free -- opening night. But with Silversides and Graybar prowling the sewers, just how long can their independence last?

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