Robert C O'Brien

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1) Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh

Author

O'Brien, Robert C

Series

Nimh

Appears on list

Newbery

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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. Awarded the Newbery Medal, 1972.

2) Z for Zachariah

Author

O'Brien, Robert C

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Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, sixteen-year-old Ann Burden is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.

3) The silver crown

Author

O'Brien, Robert C

Pub. Date

1968

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On her tenth birthday, Ellen wakes up to find a silver crown on her pillow; a few minutes later her house burns up and her parents disappear, and she is launched on an adventure involving a trek through the woods, a castle full of brainwashed captives, and the powerful Hieronymus Machine which wants her crown.