Mrs.Frisby and the Rats of Nimh: Setting

    In Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien, "... a family of field mice...lived in an underground house in a vegetable garden..." (pg.3), on a farm owned by Mr. Fitzgibbon. This story is about a family of field mice struggles day to day because of a shortage of food, because Timothy, the son is sick and because the beginning of the plowing days of Spring are just ahead.