num_pages: 249
description: Mrs. Frisby, a field mouse, asks the rats of NIMH to help move her family's home from the path of the farmer's plow.
language: English
title: The Secret of Nimh
titlecomplete: The Secret of Nimh
characters: Mrs. Frisby, Nicodemus, Justin.
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Animals, Classics, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Fantasy, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 176171
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