num_pages: 249
description: Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
language: English
title: The Secret of NIMH
titlecomplete: The Secret of NIMH
characters: Mrs. Frisby, Justin., Nicodemus
genres: Middle Grade, Animals, Childrens, Science Fiction, Juvenile, Young Adult, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 176160
series: Rats of NIMH
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Massachusetts Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: William Allen White Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Bluestem Book Award
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks