num_pages: 193
description: Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock -- the family of tiny Borrowers -- think they have at last found an ideal home. They've moved into a house in a miniature village built as a hobby by a retired railroad man. The village is the perfect size for the Borrowers, and after the hardships they've faced, the Clocks gratefully settle into the luxury of having a "proper" house. The easy life makes them careless. Or, rather, it makes Arrietty careless. She befriends a "human bean," and the next thing Arrietty knows, she and her family have been kidnapped. Their captors are a greedy married couple, called the Platters, who have big plans for the little people. They have created their own miniature village in a glass case and plan to imprison the Borrowers within -- like animals in a zoo -- for the rest of their lives.
language: English
title: The Borrowers Aloft
titlecomplete: The Borrowers Aloft (The Borrowers, #4)
genres: Fiction, Adventure, British Literature, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Classics, Childrens, Fantasy
ratings_count: 4244
series: The Borrowers
publisher: Orion Children's