Robert C. O'Brien

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret . . . Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the...

The bestselling sci-fi classic about a girl facing life in a post-nuclear holocaust world. Nuclear war has devastated America, except for the valley where Ann Burden has been living alone for over a year - until Loomis, a scientist in a radiation-proof suit, arrives. She hopes they will be companions, but his behaviour towards her becomes increasingly threatening as he...