Borrowers

The Pod family escape to the fields where their cousins live, but it's a long and dangerous journey. At last they find a new home and adapt to country life.

When their brief refuge in a gamekeeper's cottage is interrupted, the Borrowers are forced to take flight. But Arrietty is looking forward to the future whatever the danger.

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 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 a 'human bean', and the next thing Arrietty knows, she and her family have been kidnapped. Their captors are a greedy married couple called the Platters, who have big plans for the little people. They have created their own miniature village in a glass case and plan to imprison the Borrowers within - like animals in a zoo - for the rest of their lives...

Book 4 in the Borrowers series.