The Borrowers Afield

The Borrowers Afield is a children’s fantasy novel by Mary Norton and part of the Borrowers series. In this story, the tiny Borrower family is forced to leave the safety of their home after a rat catcher drives them out, leaving them homeless and struggling to survive in a wider, unfamiliar world. The book is presented as a paperback edition of 224 pages and is associated with Clarion Books/Harcourt Children’s Books in the available retail records for ISBN 9780152047320. The novel continues the series’ central premise: miniature people living secretly alongside humans, depending on cleverness, caution, and family cooperation to endure dangers that are large-scale for them but ordinary to the human world. Retail descriptions emphasize the book’s appeal to readers ages 8–12 and identify it as a classic fantasy adventure focused on family survival and resourcefulness. The ISBN-13 in the search results matches the requested ISBN exactly, and the edition appears to be a 2003 paperback reissue. Because the available records are retailer listings rather than a full publisher synopsis, this description is based on the validated title data and the plot summary included in the product listing.