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The story of a family of miniature people who live in a quiet, out-of-the-way country house and who tried never to be seen by human beings.
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152047375
The story of a family of miniature people who live in a quiet, out-of-the-way country house and who tried never to be seen by human beings.
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0544868242
Together in one volume, here are complete versions of Mary Norton’s five beloved bestselling books about the tiny, stouthearted Borrowers. Put this volume into the hands of little readers—or of any reader who delights in classic adventure. Includes complete editions of The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, The Borrowers Aloft, and The Borrowers Avenged. These editions include the original charming black-and-white illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush. A enchanting and enduring children's classic, The Borrowers is the award-winning tale of three tiny people who are big heroes. The Clock family—Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty—are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an English 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? The four subsequent books are equally charming and appealing, perfect for independent readers as well as shared reading with younger children. The Borrowers Afield: Driven from their home in the big house, Pod, Homily, and Arrietty take up life in a boot. The Borrowers Afloat: Uprooted once again, the little people journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood. “As irresistible as its predecessors.”—Booklist The Borrowers Aloft: Imprisoned in an attic by a greedy couple who want to use them as performers, the Borrowers escape by balloon. The Borrowers Avenged: Pod, Homily, and Arrietty escape from the Platters’ attic and set off to an old rectory to begin life anew.
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152047313
Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people sets up house in an old rectory. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher :
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780140368987
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152101664
The borrowers escape capture and find themselves in a dangerous field.
Author : Rebecca Makkai
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101516089
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a knapsack of provisions and an escape plan. Desperate to save him from Pastor Bob and the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and upsetting family history thrown in their path. But is it just Ian who is running away? Who is the man who seems to be on their tail? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152049287
Imprisoned in an attic by a greedy couple who want to use them as performers, the Borrowers escape by balloon.
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher :
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Mary Norton
Publisher : Puffin Bks
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9780141322704
A complete collection of the classic Borrowers stories by Mary Norton. The Borrowers- The Borrowers own nothing at all; they live in the secret places of quiet old houses - behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. Everything they have is borrowed from the 'human beans', who don't even know they exist. Arrietty's father, Pod, is an expert Borrower - he can scale curtains using a hatpin and bring back a doll's teacup without breaking it. Girls aren't supposed to go borrowing but as Arrietty is an only child her father breaks the rule. But then Arrietty makes friends with a boy - a 'human bean' - and from that moment danger is never far away for, above all else, they must avoid the great disaster of 'being seen'. The Borrowers Afield- The Pod family escape to the fields where their cousins live, but it's a long and dangerous journey. At last they find a new home and adapt to country life. The Borrowers Afloat- Homeless again, Arrietty looks forward to a life away from the dark country cottage, to one full of sunshine. The Borrowers Aloft- The family are now living in the model village of Little Fordham - a complete village tailored to their size. All they have to do is avoid being seen by the visitors, but one night the owner of a rival village comes with a cardboard box ready to catch them . . . The Borrowers Avenged- Pod, Homily and Arrietty have managed to escape with the help of Spiller. They move into the old rectory where they live happily until the Potters come looking for them. After a horrifying encounter in the church, the Potters get their just desserts and the Borrowers can live peacefully once and for all. Poor Stainless- Young Stainless, a Borrower boy, goes missing on a mission to borrow some parsley and an enormous search ensues. Mary Norton was born in 1903 and brought up in a house in Bedfordshire, which was to become the setting for The Borrowers.First published in 1952, The Borrowerswas an imediate success, winning the Library Association's Carnegie Medal. There followed four more Borrowers books- The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961) and The Borrowers Avenged(1982). Poor Stainlesswas the last Borrowers story Mary Norton wrote. She died in 1992.