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The Borrowers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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. Includes a letter and a sketch of Homily and Arrietty by the author.
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The Borrowers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The further adventures of the family of miniature people who, after losing their home under the kitchen floor of an old English house, are forced to move out to the fields.
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The Borrowers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to "The Borrowers Afield."
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The Borrowers volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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.
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English
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The miniature Clock family, Pod, Homily, and their daughter Arriety, live in a big world among the "human beans" from whom they "borrow" everything they need-matchbox dressers, postage stamp artwork, and a trinket box settee. Now lifelong enthusiasts and brand-new fans can escape into the small world of the Borrowers in this beautiful volume. It includes Mary Norton's classic illustrated stories about three little people and their not-so-little adventures:...
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The Borrowers volume 4
Language
English
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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.
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English
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The miniature Clock family, headed by parents Pod and Homily, live under the floorboards of an old English house. To sustain their living, the family must borrow common household items from the humans above. When a young boy finds the family one day, he begins a friendship with Arrietty Clock, the young daughter. Unfortunately, not everybody wants the best for the wee family, and they are forced to flee to avoid being captured. The recipient of a...
12) The borrowers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Arrietty Clock is a head-strong teenage Borrower whose parents, Pod and Homily, are terrified of the 'Human Beans' who live above them. Desperate for freedom and adventure, Arrietty sneaks out one night and befriends a lonely boy who lives upstairs. But Arrietty's adventure inadvertently reveals her family's existence to the scheming scientist Professor Mildeye, forcing them to go on the run into the big bad world.
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Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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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.
15) The borrowers
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Classic story of a family of miniature people who live in an old house and borrow things from humans.
16) The borrowers
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of a family of miniature humans who live by borrowing things from normal-sized people.
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English
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"Too many pastors and church leaders have lost countless hours of sleep - and even lost their church buildings - based on what they didn't know before they obtained financing." Lisa Miller Autry makes this telling statement at the outset of her groundbreaking book, Holy Borrowers: Equipping Church Leaders for Building Finance. Through economic downturns and recoveries, church leaders have continued to struggle with decisions surrounding building finance...
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English
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The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with. Ngaire Woods brilliantly decodes what they do and why they do it, using original research, extensive interviews carried out across many countries and institutions, and scholarship...
20) The Currency of Confidence: How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers
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English
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The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists. The IMF treats countries differently depending on whether that staff trusts the country's top officials; that trust in turn depends on the educational credentials of the policy team that Fund officials face across the negotiating table....