Mary Norton

With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three English children have a series of exciting and perilous adventures traveling on a flying bed that takes them to a London police station, a tropical island, and back in time to the seventeenth century.

"The Borrowers Afield is beautifully written and engrossing, even suspenseful . . . like the best of children's books, this is really a book for all ages." -Tor.com Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors. Nearly everything outside-cows, moths, field mice, cold weather-is a life-threatening danger for the tiny Borrowers....

Pod, Homily, and Arrietty escape from the Platters' attic and set off to an old rectory to begin life anew.

Unter den Dielen eines alten Landhauses leben die letzten Borger: Pod und Homily Clock und Arrietty, ihre vierzehnjährige Tochter. Die nur zwölf Zentimeter großen Clocks haben sich das Leben recht beschaulich und geordnet eingerichtet. Sie bestreiten ihren Lebensunterhalt durch das seit Generationen gelernte Borgen: Radiergummis, Stecknadeln, Fingerhüte - all die kleinen Dinge sind ihr Beutegut. Doch verbotenerweise freundet Arrietty sich mit...

In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, as exemplified during and after Bacon's Rebellion by the actions of-and reactions to-Lady Frances Berkeley, wife of Virginia's governor. By contrast, when...

Come along on an adventure with a family of Borrowers, the Clocks, who reside under the floorboards of Aunt Sophie's house in England. The Clocks, like all other Borrowers, survive by borrowing items from the humans. Life for the Clocks takes a turn for the worse when Arrioty befriends a human and the secrets of the Borrower world are discovered. What fate lies in the waiting for the Borrowers?

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.