Return to the Clans/Cliffnotes

Contents

These notes reflect a bulleted list of major and minor events in Return to the Clans that can be easily navigated. They are intended to serve as a reference for those looking for specific events in re-reading and book discussions and include links to the relevant chapter subpages further detailing each chapter's events.

Part 1

• Sasha gives birth to her kits, Moth, Hawk, and Tadpole.
• Sasha hides them in a cave near the ShadowClan border.
  • She vows to make sure Tigerstar isn't a part of their lives.
  • She is weak, but towards the end of leaf-bare, she gets her strength back.
• A ShadowClan patrol challenges her.
  • One of the cats smells milk on her, and says she must have kits nearby.
  • Sasha doesn't want her kits to become ShadowClan warriors, so she tells them the kits died in leaf-bare.
• Russetfur lets them go.
• The kits are out of the den for the first time.
• Sasha tells them a story about her adventures and her housefolk.
• Russetfur comes to find them, and asks if they are Tigerstar's.
  • Sasha says yes, and tells Russetfur not to tell him.
• Sasha finds out that Tigerstar died in a fight with BloodClan from Scourge.
• Russetfur warns them not to stay long, and Sasha says that as soon as the kits are strong, they'll leave.
• They take out her kittypet collar one day, and Sasha sternly tells them not to again.
• The three kits notice how sad their mother is (after they take out her old kittypet collar) about Ken and they decide to go find him.

Part 2

• They run near Twolegplace and see monsters, bicycles, and other things.
• The three kits run into Shnuky, Sasha's friend.
• They consult each other, and strut away, saying they know exactly where they're going.
• Sasha comes back from hunting and notices her kits are gone.
• She tracks them to Twolegplace, and meets Shnuky.
• Shnuky offers to help find the kits.
• The three kits meet a BloodClan patrol and escape.
• Dogs start chasing them.
• They run into an abandoned Twoleg nest.
• They try to catch a mouse, and fail. Then they realize they are locked inside.
• Sasha and Shnuky run into the same BloodClan patrol and threatens them to tell her where the kits went.
• The BloodClan cats think she is from the forest, and point toward the Twoleg house.
• The house floods, and Sasha finds her kits.
• Tadpole helps the others up, but he is left to drown.
• The remaining go back to the den, and Sasha meets Tigerstar in a dream.
• Tigerstar says that Tadpole is not with him, but he is safe.

Part 3

• Sasha gets depressed over Tadpole's death and later finds Pine.
• Pine offers to take them to a "better place to live" and that "the cats there are friendly".
• The kits say they are strong enough to go, and they start the journey.
• On the way, Sasha sees RiverClan, and thinks it's a beautiful place.
• Pine introduces them to the cats there and leaves.
• One of the queens is hostile and tells her kits to hurt Moth and Hawk.
• Sasha lunges at her, fighting and humiliating her.
• She then takes her kits away.
• They go on RiverClan territory, and Sasha starts to tell her kits about Tigerstar.

• She says that he was a big strong warrior, and very brave.
• She tells them that they will hear stories about Tigerstar one day, but the kits must not mention him at all

• A RiverClan patrol arrives, and Sasha offers her kits to them.
• Leopardstar agrees, and takes them into the Clan.
• Sasha refuses a warrior name, but Mothpaw and Hawkpaw get their apprentice names.
• One day, the apprentices see others playing a game of killing Tigerstar.
• Sasha comforts them, saying that everyone else only saw one side of Tigerstar, and that they must act oblivious to these games.
• Mothpaw and Hawkpaw then see some bones, and everyone watches, shocked while they play.
• Leopardstar tells them about Tigerstar and the bones, and Hawkpaw and Mothpaw remain silent throughout the whole thing.
• Sasha realizes that her place is not with RiverClan and leaves, leaving her kits behind her in RiverClan, promising that they will become great warriors.