Mary Norton

With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three English children have a series of exciting and perilous adventures traveling on a flying bed that takes them to a London police station, a tropical island, and back in time to the seventeenth century.

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. Sequel to: The Borrowers Aloft.

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.