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616 ... Well, my favorite book as a child was Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm. I'm afraid to read it again as an adult. What if it's not as good as I remember? To Kill a Mockingbird is great. I'll have to think about the other 8. That sounds like Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, right down to the name of Timothy, but that book published in the early 70s and Timothy wasn't forgotten -- he had been too ill to move to the new house with the rest of his family.
ETA to fix touchstone. I cried at the end of Charlotte's Web, and even though I didn't cry I was still pretty sad at the end of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Also, an octopus was killed in Island of the Blue Dolphins and I thought that was mean. So all of those books should be banned too, ... I was at the Fitzgibbon farm for a while with Mrs. Frisby, but now I am Elsewhere. Now I'm reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH -- somehow I missed this one as a kid. The Secret of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Secret in the Sky by Kenneth Robeson
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Keepers of the Secret by Barnaby Conrad
Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The Westing Game, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Charlotte's Web, A Wrinkle in Time, Little House on the Prairie
I'll probably think of others that would be top 5, but I went with the first 5 that came to mind.
As I hit submit I thought of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. F ... ... understanding your thought on diminishing value? Did you check any books against the reading level at all? If you look up Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH for instance, you get this:
ATOS Book Level: 5.1
Interest Level: Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
AR Points: 8.0
Word Count: 53752
As ... ... last year so I haven't read many of his books, but I've enjoyed them all. Small Gods sticks in my mind, and having read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH several times to assorted progeny, I find The Amazing Maurice and His Amazing Rodents hysterically funny. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH? Probably not what you're looking for as this is a kids story, but I thought I'd throw it out there just in case. ... I was younger, I liked fantasy novels that personified animals, like Charlotte's Web, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, etc. ... such as Small Gods and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (this last is especially good if you've read The Rats of NIMH). The Amber Spyglass books are excellent. Homeless Bird and The Lady of Ch'iao Kuo. These are a few of my favorites. I actually taught NIMH when I taught middle school, which is probably the only reason I have the book. It surprised me as well.
I don't remember liking the movie, but it's been forever since I've seen it. The NIMH author actually wrote more than one book?!?!? This is news to me... LOL!!! Guess I never bothered to find anything else by him... I used to watch the film version over and over and over and over (and over and over), likely to the annoyance of my parents. I don't recall being as impressed ... ... you two like it!
I was surprised when I went to put it on the shelf, and realized that it's the same author who wrote Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Finally, after all these years, got around to reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. ... this was a story that (like The Hunger Games) would have been better having been wrapped up in a single book.
I've got Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and The Girl Who Could Fly both on my TBR pile, but for the moment, non-YA, I'm reading Jenny Uglow's biography of Thomas Bewick, Nature' ... 21. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
I've had this one on my TBR list since it first came out back in the '70s! Read it now for the Book Awards II Challenge - it won the 1973 Newbery Medal. The story of Mrs. Frisby, the widowed field mouse who must move her family to their ... ... (It's not supposed to be released until May 26, according to its Amazon pre-order page.)
Also, I finally got hold of Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. 25) The idea of a sentient rat has been done before The Rats of NIMH and The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents being two that I recall so I was intrigued to see how Firmin would address it. As normal, something goes awry and the rat gets clever: as an aside, why does the rat have to "ge ... ... er)
4. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (1968 winner) (READ: 24 May 09)
5. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1972 winner)
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I have others I'm deciding on, but the first five are definite ones to read. I'm ... Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is wonderful! The animated movie eviscerated the underlying meaning of the story and turned it into a simple children's tale, but the book is a marvelous exploration of intelligence and responsibility in a highly accessible story--one of my very favorites.
Mis ... I read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH many years ago but I loved it. I think I read it several times. ... is to back up allthesedarnbooks and say that I highly recommend The Bridge to Terabithia - it's a wonderful book. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh is also great... I'm working through Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which I haven't read since I was teeny -- I just rewatched the lovely animated film of it and it made me want to revisit the book. ... bit too. So now re-reading something from that era is a direct pipeline back to my happier times.
Specific titles: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, My Teacher is an Alien, My Teacher Glows in the Dark, My Teacher Fried My Brains, My Teacher Flunked T ... ... did
1. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
2. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
3. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
4. The Diary of a Girl by Anne Frank (ok, so maybe not everyone read this as a child, but I would consider ... ... DONE, 2/8/09
3. Hero by Perry Moore DONE, 2/3/09
4. Shadowland by Meg Cabot DONE, 4/15/09
5. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien DONE, 3/22/09
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott DONE, 4/1/09
7. The Astonishing Life of Octavian ... ... by Harry E. Shaw
15. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare *
16. Measure for Measure by Harriet Hawkins
17. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
18. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens *
19. Transatlantic Revivalism by Richard Carwardine
20. Little Women ... ... of death of a parent, and to change that to wish fulfillment destroys the whole soul of the book!
And they did that with The Rats of NIMH too. I loved the Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh all of them
The Phantom Tollbooth
Tuck Everlasting
The Westing Game
Bunnicula all of them, esp. Howliday Inn
Everything Roald Dahl
The Secret Language
Charlotte's Web
Encyclopedia Brown
The Christy Miller series (anyone ... ...
1974 Paula Fox - The Slave Dancer
1973 Jean Craighead George - Julie of the Wolves
1972 Robert C. O'Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 Betsy Byars - Summer of the Swans
1970 William H. Armstrong - Sounder ... Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
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39. Marked by P.C Cast
40. z for zachariah by Robert C. O'Brian
41. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brian
42. The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
43. The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quinn All books by Enid Blyton, but more specifically the
Famous Five series; Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh ; and Stormy by Jim Kjelgaard ... is as follows:
Are You My Mother?
The Serendipity books
Ramona the Pest
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
White Fang
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Prydain series
Watership Down
The Xanth series
The M.Y.T.H. Adventure series
The ... ... Elizabeth Enright (Young Readers Challenge)
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field (Young Readers Challenge)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien (Young Readers Challenge)
Knight’s Castle, by Edward Eager (Young Readers Challenge)
The Time Garden, by Edw ... Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm by Robert C. o'Brien ... of us all reading together (which I guess is kind of strange!)
From elementary school I remember the teacher reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Lizard Music. I really remember loving those books! Along with a lot of the above books, I want to add Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm and The Black Stallion. Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm by Robert O'Brien
The lady, her lover and her Lord by T.D. Jakes
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
Mr. Darcy takes a wife: pride and prejudice continues by Linda Berdoll The Wind in the Willows
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Charlotte's Web - maybe?
Watership Down although I hate to recommend it....
But aside from the talking animals, no magic in any of those that I recall.
My brother and sister (8 and 11) have just finished Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh and Racso and the Rats of Nimh. My mom read both to them and they all would like more action/animal books to read. Any suggestions for them? I already suggested the Warriors series (my brother likes action) but ... ... Vegas: A Centennial History by Eugene P. Moehring and Michael S. Green (2005)
7. The Ragwitch by Garth Nix (1990)
8. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien (1971)
9. The Black Falcon by Walter B. Gibson writing as Maxwell Grant (1934)
10. The London Crimes by Walter ... I got Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon, Beauty by Sheri S Tepper and Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'brien, All new writers for me, . Plus another myth and legend book The Golden Age of Myth and Legend all second hand ... House of Stairs takes place in a society where orphans are used as fodder for psychological conditioning experiments.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH deals directly with negative impacts of technology on society.
The Phantom Tollbooth takes a more allegorical approach to a society ... ... I think this is because I had to read it in an upper level reading group in class while the rest of my class got to read Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh which I really wanted to read at the time
One thing that I have run into recently: I just finished reading Streams of Silver by Salvator ... The secret of nihm by Robert C O'Brien I think that I have read it but will have to find it again to be sure.
I just read Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NiMH by O'brien. The Hundred Dresses, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm, The Happy Hollisters series, James and the Giant Peach, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and
So many more... ... the vampires bring home the wrong baby.
The Great Ghost Rescue by Eva Ibbotson - spooky, funny and with a heart.
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nihm by Robert C O'Brien - classic story that's really moving.
Any Mr Gum book by Andy Stanton - new books but my brothers kids love them, ... ... the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Number of the Beast by Heinlein - ... I second Mrs. Frisby. Our teacher read it to us and I remember it, 25+ years later. I was in 4th or 5th grade. Lots of food for thought that is still relevant today. ... Westing Game. Picked it out for my SantaThingee, in fact.
Different strokes, I guess.
Also, nobody's yet mentioned Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, but that's another favorite of mine. ... - The Golden Compass (The Northern Lights, original title,), The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh is a cute little read that I've loved for ages, but, as to the genre -- I find it sometimes under fantasy and sometimes under science ... ... Pretty much everything by R. D. Lawrence, esp. the wolf books like Secret go the wolves, etc.
Watership Down, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Charlotte's Web, A Cricket in Times Square -- I'm sure there are others I just can't remember. I read lots of books about people who ... ... Dead by James Lincoln & Christopher Collier
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak ... Garden and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
The Silver Crown and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
The Farthest-Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks
The Borrowers series by Mary Norton
Escape to King Alfred ... ... own
Words of Silk by Sandra Brown
Mystic by Lisa Jackson
Bridge to Teribithia by Katherine Patterson
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
May 2007 (4)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Whirlpool by Elizabeth Lowell
Th ... I loved Mrs. Frisby and the rats of N.I.M.H. as a kid, and just read it to my 7 and 5 year old kids this past summer and they loved it too. We have also enjoyed the first two Narnia books.
I don't know if they qualify as Fantasy, but we also loved the Silverwing books by Kenneth Oppel - ... The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. I loved those books in elementary school. Also, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H. and The Phantom Tollbooth were favorites. The film version of theThe Rats of NIMH bothered me; it cut out some of the better parts of the book.
I thought of another really good book I enjoyed about that age. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. I really liked it right around that age. Almost all our leaves here are already gone. We had mostly brown but a little color.
Rats and mice make me think about Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH which I read a long time ago. I know it's not a romance but I wondered if anyone else read it. It was a really good story. I definitely remember reading Anne McCaffrey around the age of 8 or so. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh was a favourite too.
I remember re-reading Dune when I was 10. That's definitely a book that improves when reading as an adult!
... Princess), E. B. White's books, Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series, Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Peggy MacDonald's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series.
Some of these might be a little old for your daughter, none on the "adult situations" ...
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