Secret of NIMH [Paperback]

Robert C. O'Brien (Author)

Book Description

Mrs. Frisby, a field mouse, asks the rats of NIMH to help move her family's home from the path of the farmer's plow.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Scholastic (August 1985)
• ISBN-10: 0590338943
• ISBN-13: 978-0590338943
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,908,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Spectaculous Secret Of Nimh, December 11, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Secret of Nimh (Paperback)

I recommend this book for readers who like action and suspense both in one book. This book is about some rats that became smarter and escaped from a laboratory to form a colony. A widow named Mrs. Frisby, who is trying to save her son Timmy from pneumonia. She meets the rats and the adventure begins! I like the part when Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh try to get out of the burrow when the Nimh staff, try to gas them out. I give this book a rating of 5 stars. 4th through 6th graders would enjoy this book a lot. I suggest teachers use this book as a unit.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book (and serries), January 4, 2000

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Meghan Hohenthaner (Juneau Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Secret of Nimh (Paperback)

I've read the whole series and I have to say that I love them all! This is one series I want to collect to share with my future children. They're timeless tales that should be counted among the few great classics! I do not agree with some that would say this could give a child nightmares, it is a great series that is by no means bad for young children. My mom read it to me and my sibs when we were young and we loved it!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An exciting, adventurous book on the Rats of NIMH, November 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Secret of Nimh (Paperback)

I think that Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is an exciting book on a loving mother trying to get help for her family by the Rats of NIMH. She has to get her home (a small cinder block in Mr. Fitzgibbons vegetable patch) out of the garden before the plow comes. I loved this book! It was fun figuring out how they were going to it and I would read it a million times if I had to. I think you should read this book just because you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. Enjoy!