The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers/Diggers/Wings

From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series comes a comic and insightful trilogy about a race of four-inch-high heroes trying to make sense of a human-size world.

In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer remember--or even believe in--life beyond the Store walls.

Until the day a small band of nomes arrives at the Store from the Outside. Led by a young nome named Masklin, the Outsiders carry a mysterious black box (called the Thing), and they deliver devastating news: In twenty-one days, the Store will be destroyed.

Now all the nomes must learn to work together, and they must learn to think -- and to think BIG.

Part satire, part parable, and part adventure story par excellence, master storyteller Terry Pratchett's engaging trilogy traces the nomes' flight and search for safety, a search that leads them to discover their own astonishing origins and takes them beyond their wildest dreams.

Praise for the Bromeliad trilogy: "Witty, funny, wise, and altogether delightful."--Locus Magazine

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Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 09/30/2003
Pages: 502
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.23w x 1.59d
ISBN: 9780060094935

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 78073 / Diggers


Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 11/24/2003 pg. 66
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 101 - Superior,Well Above Average
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2004 pg. 101 - Superior,Well Above Average
Publishers Weekly 11/24/2003

About the Author
Pratchett, Terry: -

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) is the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.