num_pages: 180
description: Beneath the kitchen floor is the world of the Borrowers -- Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. In their tiny home, matchboxes double as roomy dressers and postage stamps hang on the walls like paintings. Whatever the Clocks need they simply "borrow" from the "human beans" who live above them. It's a comfortable life, but boring if you're a kid. Only Pod is allowed to venture into the house above, because the danger of being seen by a human is too great. Borrowers who are seen by humans are never seen again. Yet Arrietty won't listen. There is a human boy up there, and Arrietty is desperate for a friend.
language: English
title: The Borrowers
titlecomplete: The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1)
characters: Homily, Arrietty, Pod
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Adventure, Chapter Books, Childrens Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile
ratings_count: 96172
series: The Borrowers
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: Clarion Books