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About The Borrowers by M. Norton Chpts. 16-20
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Uploaded | This book was written by Mary Norton. It is about very little people called borrowers. They borrow things from us. | |
Uploaded | The boy brings the borrowers all kinds of treasures from the doll house upstairs. | |
Uploaded | Arrietty gets to spend time outside! The boy tells her all about the world. She has a friend. | |
Uploaded | Mrs. Driver, the maid, wonders where things are going. She is mad. She goes looking around the house for lost things. | |
Uploaded | Mrs. Driver finds the borrowers! She screams! The borrowers are scared. | |
Uploaded | The boy tells them they are not safe anymore. They need to leave their home in the clock. He will help them. | |
Uploaded | The boy puts the borrowers in a sack and takes them upstairs. They will borrow some supplies to take with them. | |
Uploaded | Mrs. Driver sees them! She is mad. She is mean. She tells the boy he is stealing. | |
Uploaded | “Please don’t hurt them”, said the boy. Mrs. Driver is mean. She locks the boy in his room. The borrowers get away! | |
Uploaded | Mrs. Driver calls the police. They will not help her catch the borrowers. She gets a cat. It does not catch the borrowers. | |
Uploaded | She hires a man to catch the borrowers. He tries but the boy gets out of his room. The boy helps them escape. | |
Uploaded | Remember the beginning of this story? Mrs. May was telling Kate the story of the borrowers. | |
Uploaded | What happened? Kate wants to know if the borrowers got out of the house. Are they safe? Where did they go? | |
Uploaded | Mrs. May thinks the borrowers are safe! She thinks they went to meet their family. | |
Uploaded | Mrs. May tells Katie when she was a girl she found Arrietty’s diary and the tiny teacup. | |
Uploaded | Kate thinks the borrowers are safe! She thinks they are real. She thinks they are living in a new place with their family. | |
Uploaded | Mrs. May is not sure. She wonders if her brother made up this story. Are the borrowers real? | |
Uploaded | Have you ever lost something? Maybe you didn’t lose it. Maybe the borrowers have it. Maybe they are real. |