A miniature family--Pod and Homily Clock, and their daughter Arrietty--live under the kitchen floor in an old country house. In their tiny home, matchboxes serve as dressers and postage stamps hang on the wall like paintings. Whatever the Clock family needs, they simply "borrow" from the humans who live above them. Only Pod ventures into the house above, because of the danger of being seen by the humans. But Arietty is lonely, and changes all of their...

With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride, for no matter...