description: 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? The British author Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal for The Borrowers in 1952, the year it was first published in England.
language: English
title: The Borrowers
titlecomplete: The Borrowers (The Borrowers #1)
characters: Pod, Arrietty, Homily
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Classics, Childrens, Childrens Classics, Fantasy
ratings_count: 96175
series: The Borrowers
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: Trumpet Club