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52nd out of 64 books
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The Borrowers Avenged (The Borrowers #5)
by
Mary Norton,
Beth Krush , Joe Krush
Tiny Borrowers hide from human Beans, and borrow to survive. Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock, who escaped from the villainous Platter attic in The Borrowers Aloft, find a new rectory home, but the Platters follow.
Paperback, 312 pages
Published
April 1st 2003
by Sandpiper
(first published November 15th 1982)
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So I read this series to my kids over a year and wrote a whole big thing on my blog with pretty photos and Tom Felton references and thoughts about how The Borrowers turned me into a shipper at age six. You can read that here.
MY REVIEW OF THE BORROWERS AVENGED and the series as a whole:
Arrietty Clock is one of the most boy-crazy characters in literary history.
The series is 90 percent description, chapter after chapter describing candle stubs and stick pins and life in a Victorian house. There...more
MY REVIEW OF THE BORROWERS AVENGED and the series as a whole:
Arrietty Clock is one of the most boy-crazy characters in literary history.
The series is 90 percent description, chapter after chapter describing candle stubs and stick pins and life in a Victorian house. There...more
I loves me a good book about tiny people who live in big peoples' houses! I pick up a Borrowers book every couple of years just to remind myself how much I LOVED them when I was younger...and how cool it is that the little people find different uses for every day items (the dad's walking stick is a sewing needle, which comes in handy for any numbers of sticky situations)....
Not a very satisfying end to the series, somehow. It's nice to end with the Borrowers all set up in a new home, but the Platters aren't really satisfactorily got rid of, and Miss Menzies doesn't (yet?) have closure about the Borrowers, and we don't know if Arriety and Spiller ever get together...
All the setting up home stuff reads a bit like a happily ever after, and yet it's unsatisfying, because so little happens. And again, like the fourth book, it's not a story being told anymore, but is pre...more
All the setting up home stuff reads a bit like a happily ever after, and yet it's unsatisfying, because so little happens. And again, like the fourth book, it's not a story being told anymore, but is pre...more
This final adventure of the borrowers is full of the ingenuity and industry it takes to create a comfortable home, secure and essentially invisible to their human hosts. They find a valuable asset in Peagreen, a young borrower whose creativity rivals both Pod's in engineering, and Arriety's in the arts. The Clock family also has to renew their standards of sociability with the neighboring borrowers, now that they are no long living in isolation.
The human factor continues to pose a threat, as it...more
The human factor continues to pose a threat, as it...more
This is the fifth and final book in the series. Firstly, after the disappointment of the previous book, I started this one with low expectations. However, it turned out to be much better than I thought it would be and I enjoyed it.
The story picks up where the previous one left off (as do all the books) and we follow the family to their new life at the rectory. Arrietty’s aunt and uncle have moved into the church next door and we meet a new character, Pea Green, who is already living in the recto...more
The story picks up where the previous one left off (as do all the books) and we follow the family to their new life at the rectory. Arrietty’s aunt and uncle have moved into the church next door and we meet a new character, Pea Green, who is already living in the recto...more
This is the last book in the Borrowers saga. There was a lot of good things that happened in the book - the little family we've been following since book 1 has finally gotten resettled, and more borrowers are around. But for the last book in the series, I wanted more closure for the characters - even implied closure would have been good.
My kids did love having this read to them, and have vowed to read it again for themselves when they are older. I loved this because it wasn't dark or magical li...more
My kids did love having this read to them, and have vowed to read it again for themselves when they are older. I loved this because it wasn't dark or magical li...more
I love the borrowers series! I'm sad that the series is finished, but Mary Norton had to stop somewhere. I looked to see if she had written a 6th book in the series but she did not. Book 5 came out in 1982 ( she started the series in the 60's) I love how they finally settle down and they are near to Aunt Luppy and Tidmos (not sure how to spell his name, sorry) The room under the window sill sounds wonderful, I can see why Arritety liked it. Anyway Mary Norton did a wonderful job with the series...more
The Borrowers Avenged is the perfect conclusion to the Borrowers series. It isn't the picture perfect ending where everyone gets exactly what they want--it's even better. The book ends with a question of whether anyone is every really safe. It's applicable to so many aspects of life and readers of all ages. If you're a young reader you'll be questioning if the borrowers will be able to stay living in the church and rectory without being found by reckless and curious "human beings." Older reader...more
This is the final installment of The Borrowers series and i have to say this one here has really brought the series round for me in a good way.
In this book Arrietty and her family are finally able to borrow again in a house. They meet another Borrower along the way, Peagren, which if my memory serves correctly in the movie version Peagren is actually Arriettys brother and played by Tom Felton.
There is also the ending of the long running story between the humans, the Potters especially and i real...more
In this book Arrietty and her family are finally able to borrow again in a house. They meet another Borrower along the way, Peagren, which if my memory serves correctly in the movie version Peagren is actually Arriettys brother and played by Tom Felton.
There is also the ending of the long running story between the humans, the Potters especially and i real...more
I think I understand now why this one always seemed a little darker to me as a child. It's something that I'm positive I never noticed in those days, and that would be the not-really-subtle allusion to Lady Mullings' psychic abilities. Add three ghosts that dwell in the building where the Clocks live, and you have a duly creepy spiritualistic angle that could just as well have been left out, it seems. At least the ghost part would have had no direct effect on the plot were it missing. Anyway.
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After the lovely "Borrowers Aloft," this book feels superfluous, and worse, out of continuity. Why add another ending book when "Aloft" had such an "end of series" feel? Why does Spiller get so little page time in this book when Arrietty declared her commitment to him in the previous book? I did enjoy the scenes with Peagreen, but overall this book was a disappointment.
A curious conclusion to the series, published 21 years after what was intended to be the concluding book, The Borrowers Aloft. The Clock family finally find a permanent home, and the descriptions of their innovations are fascinating as always. We meet a new borrower, a possible love interest for Arrietty. The Hendrearies reappear. And the Mr and Mrs Platter thread which dangled at the end of The Borrowers Aloft is tied up eventually. Unfortunately I found this book a bit of a hard slog; I kept t...more
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I can't think, offhand, of another series in which I wish the author had stopped before writing one more sequel. . .
This story disappointed me in so many ways. I read it and recommended that my daughter NOT read it, lest this one story spoil the whole series for her. Not only is it dull and rambling, but the classic characters I loved in the first four books have changed, in themselves and in their relationships to each other. The take-away feeling is depressing and rather dark.
Definitely not wo...more
This story disappointed me in so many ways. I read it and recommended that my daughter NOT read it, lest this one story spoil the whole series for her. Not only is it dull and rambling, but the classic characters I loved in the first four books have changed, in themselves and in their relationships to each other. The take-away feeling is depressing and rather dark.
Definitely not wo...more
The borrowers avenged: This book is about little people surviving in their world and going on adventures. On their adventures they meet different kinds of people and basically just have fun. The illustrations were good, detailed and made me want to read more. This book wasn’t my favorite but it ok; I would recommend this book to fantasy lovers.
WHAT KIND OF ENDING IS THAT?!?!? Can't you hand it to me in a neatly tied-up package? This book was disappointing because of the ending (or lack of it) but I did enjoy it nonetheless. Full of adventure, suspense, crime, drama, and of course, more teen crushes. This series is definitely a good one and perfect for light summer reading. Don't EVEN think of watching the lame movie. It ruins it and I couldn't even finish it.
A good story, but sadly anti-clamatic. I wanted more tied up. I guess
That's a sign of a great series.... you end up wondering who Arrietty married, what happened to everyone? Did Spiller keep his promise?
That's a sign of a great series.... you end up wondering who Arrietty married, what happened to everyone? Did Spiller keep his promise?
Here are the continued adventures of Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock, first introduced in The Borrowers. I adored this entire series, though the plot begins to tire by the fifth book.
The Clock family are still seeking a place to live. This book is as good as the first with lots of suspense as they travel to new places and are faced with new risks and old friends.
I loved these little people when I was in grammar school--I could almost see them
Overall entertaining, but kind of an odd ending. Certain story lines weren't wrapped up as much as I'd hoped.
O. is so bummed that we finished the series!
O. is so bummed that we finished the series!
Not as good as original series but you have to read it if you loved the rest.
I have just loved this series and can't wait until my 8yo is interested.
I feel like there should be yet another book!
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Great way to revisit your childhood!
I loved these books when I was a child.
I really enjoyed The Borrowers series. I must say that I feel like Ms. Norton sped through the end of this one. I know that this is a series that could have gone on and on and on and there needed to be an end at some point. I'm just not thrilled with how abruptly the last in the series ended.
Good stuff.
This was my favorite Borrowers book when I was little but I'm not sure it would be now. Good, but it turns out a lot of my memories were parts I had imagined out fully that were only briefly mentioned in the text.
Strangely ominous ending.
So, are we supposed to take from this that Spiller's cool and all but he's just not suitable for Arriety?
Once again, I felt sorry for the villains because they were just so pathetic.
Strangely ominous ending.
So, are we supposed to take from this that Spiller's cool and all but he's just not suitable for Arriety?
Once again, I felt sorry for the villains because they were just so pathetic.
Even though this is considered a young person's story, I quite enjoyed reading the series again..... First read this when I was very young, but still enjoyed it now.
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Mary Norton (née Pearson) was an English children's author. She was the daughter of a physician, and was raised in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard. The house now consists of part of Leighton Middle School, known within the school as The Old House, and was reportedly the setting of her novel The Borrowers. She married Robert C. Norton in 1927 and had four children...more
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