Mary Norton

Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.

Pod, Homily, and Arrietty escape from the Platters' attic and set off to an old rectory to begin life anew. "Like her Borrowers, the author is resourceful, inventive, and patient, and her fantasy continues to be totally real and acceptable."—The Horn Book

Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years—and their appeal is as strong as ever in The Borrowers Aloft. The original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, capturing these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.

The existence of a family of tiny people called Borrowers living in a house occupied by normal-sized people is threatened when the fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, is discovered by Shawn, the young, normal-sized boy who has come to live with his great aunt.