Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours...

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.

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.

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...

"A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face...

A psychological novel on the friendship of two women, one hard, the other soft. Both are teachers and they are brought together by a book on two women, one hard the other soft. A book within a book.

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.

The Borrowers, a family of tiny people, are kidnapped from their home in Little Fordham and held captive in an attic.

Becky loves to borrow. Now her room is so filled with other children's things that she can't remember what belongs to whom until she comes up with the perfect solution!

"Wouldn't it be fun to have a friend move in next door? Norton thought so. Until the bear started borrowing all of his things..."--Back cover.