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Racso and the Rats of NIMH
by Jane Leslie Conly
from HarperTrophy

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A Very Worth Successor!
  A superb follow up to "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM." My 9 and 10 year olds both agreed they liked this book more than the first and continue to talk about it weeks after we finished the story.

• A shadow of the original
  This entire book was weak, from the characters to the battle against the construction company. I've read better fanfiction than this collection of character archtypes, Racso the Mary Sue, and the stultification of the solid characters that made Mrs. Frisby so rich. The damn builders could have been replaced with any number of "bad companies out to maim and destroy" including NIMH.

• not in the same league as the original
  My kids and I enjoyed reading together, but doesn't measure up to the original.

• Very good sequel
  This book is a sequel to the excellent "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H." This second book is not written by the author the first, Robert C. O'Brien: this author is his daughter. Despite that, this is a very creditable sequel to the first book. Fortunately, the poor animated movie sequel to "The Rats of N.I.M.H." is *NOT* based on this book. Only minor inconsistencies exist with O'Brien's work. The book generates less of a sense of wonder and mystery, but is nevertheless highly recommended to anyone who... more info

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