Publication Date: 1965
Reading Level: Lexile Measure 860L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level o
Interest Level: Grades 3-5
Major Awards: Nene Award (1969), Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (1968), Iowa Children's Choice Award, William Allen White Children's Book Award
Number of Pages: 176 pages
Approximate Word Count: 53,680 words -- The average reader will spend 3 hours and 34 minutes reading The Mouse and the Motorcycle at 250 words per minute.
Audible Book Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
Book Themes: Friendship, Dangerous Mission
Genre: Fiction, Children's Literature
Setting: the Mountain View Inn, a battered resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range of California
Important Quote:
Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.
First Line: Keith, the boy in the rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered Room 215 of the Mountain View Inn.
Point of View: Third Person
* Estimate from Reading Length
