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Genre/Form: | Children's stories, English Juvenile works Fantasy fiction Fiction Juvenile fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Norton, Mary. Borrowers. Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 1998 (OCoLC)894613988 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Norton; Beth Krush; Joe Krush |
ISBN: | 9780152047375 0152047379 9780152099879 0152099875 9780152099909 0152099905 9780786279548 0786279540 9781484449233 1484449231 0613635817 9780613635813 0152049282 9780152049287 9781413100259 1413100252 |
OCLC Number: | 38860437 |
Notes: | "An Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic." |
Awards: | Carnegie Medal, 1952 A Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Book An ALA Distinguished Book |
Description: | 180 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Responsibility: | Mary Norton ; illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush. |
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Abstract:
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.
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