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 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...

Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people sets up house in an old rectory.

Together in one volume, here are complete versions of Mary Norton's five beloved bestselling books about the tiny, stouthearted Borrowers.

Put this volume into the hands of little readers—or of any reader who delights in classic adventure. Includes complete editions of The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, The Borrowers Aloft, and The Borrowers Avenged. These editions include the original charming

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A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical
The Athenian Mercury—a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London—included the world's first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Mary Beth Norton's "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer" is a remarkable collection

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In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, little people called Borrowers live quietly among us. But when tenacious and tiny Arrietty is discovered by Shawn, a human boy, their secret and forbidden friendship blossoms into an extraordinary adventure.

Return to Colonial New England for a fresh look at the infamous events of Puritan Salem.

A clan of thumb-size mischief makers stars in this eye-popping fantasy.