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   Book 1   

Pages: 192

The Borrowers – the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise – are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are "borrowed" from the "human beans" who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee?

Recognition: Carnegie Medal (1952); Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1960)

Borrowers Series—Summary and Book Order

Series: Borrowers
Reading level: 7+
Books in series: 5
Read in order? Yes
Next release: Finished
Tags: classic  fantasy  family  friendship  adventure 

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