When a prowling ferret drives them from their cottage refuge, Pod, Homily, and Arrietty navigate dark pipes in a soapbox lid, camp upon the riverbank, and wait for Spiller to return.
Their goal is Little Fordham, a legendary model village with empty houses sized for borrowers, where a fresh life away from hungry humans seems possible.
Stranded on an island of drifting twigs, the tiny family dodges a gypsy's cruel fishing hook, and clings to wet branches. "As irresistible as its predecessors."—Booklist