Book Description:
There's something very strange about the rats living under the rosebush at the
Fitzgibbon farm. But Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with a sick child, is in dire straits
and must turn to these exceptional creatures for assistance. Soon she finds herself
flying on the back of a crow, slipping sleeping powder into a ferocious cat's dinner
dish, and helping 108 brilliant, laboratory-enhanced rats escape to a utopian
civilization of their own design, no longer to live "on the edge of somebody else's,
like fleas on a dog's back."
This unusual novel, winner of the Newbery Medal (among a host of
other accolades) snags the reader on page one and reels in steadily all the
way through to the exhilarating conclusion. Robert O'Brien has created a
small but complete world in which a mother's concern for her son overpowers her
fear of all her natural enemies and allows her to make some extraordinary
discoveries along the way.
O'Brien's incredible tale, along with Zena Bernstein's appealing ink drawings,
ensures that readers will never again look at alley rats and field mice in the same way.
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