Robert C. O'Brien
Born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
January 11, 1918
Died
March 05, 1973
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)
24 editions
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published
1971
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Z for Zachariah
53 editions
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published
1974
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The Secret Of NIMH
by
8 editions
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published
1982
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The Silver Crown
25 editions
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published
1968
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A Report from Group 17
6 editions
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published
1972
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Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH: A study guide for grades 4-8
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2 editions
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published
1998
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“When you’ve lived in a cage, you can’t bear not to run, even if what you’re running towards is an illusion.”
― Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
― Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
“I have lived in this tree, in this same hollow," the owl said, "for more years than anyone can remember. But now, when the wind blows hard in winter and rocks the forest, I sit here in the dark, and from deep down in the bole, near the roots, I hear a new sound. It is the sound of strands of wood creaking in the cold and snapping one by one. The limbs are falling; the tree is old, and it is dying. Yet I cannot bring myself, after so many years, to leave, to find a new home and move into it, perhaps to fight for it. I, too, have grown old. One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it.”
― Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
― Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
“Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men's ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn't believe that, nor did any of us⎼unless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums. And that, of course, can happen to people, too.”
― Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
― Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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