Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
a novel by Robert C. O’Brien
Mrs. Frisby is a widowed field mouse with four children and a deadline she cannot argue with: the farmer’s plow is coming, and her winter home in the garden must be abandoned. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to be carried out into the cold. Searching for help, she goes to the wise Mr. Ages, rescues a young crow from the farm cat, and is finally sent to the strangest neighbors on the farm — a colony of rats who live under a rosebush with electric light, a library, and a secret history. They were taken to a laboratory called NIMH, taught to read, and changed into something no rat was meant to be; now they are planning to stop stealing from human beings altogether. To save Timothy, Mrs. Frisby must trust them with her family — and take a risk that only she can take. Robert C. O’Brien’s Newbery Medal winner turns a small animal rescue into a serious story about intelligence, courage, and what a community owes the world it lives in. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel, with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT & TOEFL-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.
Level 5Newbery Medal 1972Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based