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    <body><![CDATA[     I read this years after the animated version came out. I'd rather talk about the movie though. But I will say that the book obviously has more depth and detail than the movie. So, read the book. <br/>     The story is about an underground society of rats that escaped from a laboratory (NIMH). ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2640259">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of my all-time favorite books when I was a kid; I must've read it eight times. So I was pleased to find that it holds up well, and I still found it very entertaining (although it seemed a shorter). I did notice some things that I don't think really registered when I was younger. For one...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16543228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book captivated me from start to finish when I read it - for the first time - as an adult. It's such a beautiful story of courage and morality and heroism. It's hard to imagine anyone not being moved by &quot;The Rats of Nimh&quot; and its characters are well-developed and not easily forgotten....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5325972">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for the first time in 4th grade. I remember I enjoyed it so much that I was finished with it the first week it was distributed, way ahead of the class, and I read each section again with the rest of the class. It was the first &quot;novel&quot; I ever read and it was the beginning o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42784426">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My son read this for third grade and loved it, so now he's hooked on the series and making me read it. What a great mouse/rat adventure!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMHThis book is called &quot;Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH&quot;.  It is by Robert C. O'Brien. This book is about a mother field mouse trying to help her son.  I think this book was pretty good because of the suspense. This book was set on a farm, present day. The mai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55545985">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mrs. Frisby adalah seorang single mother dengan 4 anak (atau lima ya? lupa :P). Tak ada pilihan lain untuk kondisi semacam itu. Dia harus menjadi seekor ibu yang tangguh. Kok seekor? Soalnya Mrs. Frisby itu tikus hehe. Demi keselamatan anaknya yang sedang sakit, Mrs. Frisby harus menghadapi bermacam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54194394">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this whole book while sitting in my car, not moving, between Dallas and Austin one night. At least I had something to entertain me. <br/><br/>I hadn't read this book probably since middle school and it all came back to me and it was still just as beautiful. I heart Nicodemus.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Suberb, terrifying book about Mrs. Frisby seeking help from a clan of intellectualized rats to move her home before it is destroyed, which will kill her bedridden son Timmy.<br/><br/>The movie is also very good, and scary, but they call her Mrs. Brisby for some damn reason.]]></body>
    
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