'The first rule of Borrowing is that a Borrower must never be seen.' The Borrowers are tiny people who live under the floor of the Lender family's house. A nasty lawyer, Ocious P. Potter wants to pull down the Lenders' home. Then young Pete Lender finds Arrietty Clock, a Borrower, and they join together to try to stop him. But can they save the house? And will the Borrowers escape safely from the dangerous 'human beans'? The Borrowers has been a great favourite with English children for many years. Recently it was made into a spectacular film starring John Goodman.
This is Book 17 in the Penguin Readers (Graded Readers) Series. See all Penguin Readers (Graded Readers) books here.
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MARY NORTON was born in London in 1903, and brought up in Bedfordshire, which was the setting for THE BORROWERS. In 1941 she was given a war job in America, and worked for two years for the British Purchasing Commission in New York. It was during this time that she began to write. After the war, she moved back to England with her family and continued writing
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