The single-mother Frisby mouse family is in trouble. It's almost time to move out of the garden for spring planting, but one of the kids is too sickly to make the move. In desperation, she seeks out the help of the suspiciously organized rats who also reside on the farm.
The book isn't about Mrs. Frisby at all; the meat of the story is the rats and how they went from regular ol' scavengers to reading/building super rats. So why is the rat tale told in clumsy flashback? All tension of their capture and escape from the testing laboratory was removed since we could clearly see the outcome in the "present."
Decent idea shared in the most boring way possible.
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