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    Diggers

    By Terry Pratchett

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    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 second title in the engaging Bromeliad 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 7, 2012
    ISBN9780062193810
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    Terry Pratchett

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was 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.

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    • 3/5
      After reading the Ramona books and Narnia together, by youngest son and I decided to read these. They were ok... but then he didn't want to have our special reading time together anymore... :(
    • 4/5
      Well..I followed these nomes all the way from the store to the quarry and worried about their safety all the time. I have enjoyed their company, humour and antics. Now it falls to me to say that I enjoyed TRUCKERS just that little bit more. But....if I only give DIGGERS *** I will feel as if I am letting Masklin and all the other little guys down.......so.............
    • 4/5
      This is my least favorite of the three Bromeliad books. It is still funny, but didn't make me laugh out loud so much.
    • 3/5
      Book 2 of 3 in a Pratchett young adult/children's series- the 'nomes' world is still in upheaval and yet this book felt much slower than the first, likely because it's a midway book. Typical Pratchett satirical humor, acceptable for all agees - warning - not at all related to Discworld if that's what you are lookingfor.
    • 4/5
      The nomes have to leave the store and take refuge in an abandoned quarry. But then the humans decided to reopen the quarry . . . Not as good as the first book.
    • 4/5
      After the nomes make their escape from the store, they crash the truck in an abandoned quarry and make their home there. But the quarry isn't abandoned for long, and when the humans start making plans to reopen it, the nomes once more have to find somewhere else to live.This one felt slower than the first, but I still enjoyed it.
    • 4/5
      Diggers didn't have quite the same impact as the first Bromeliad book, Truckers, but I still enjoyed it very much. Since Book 2 narrated just one side of the ongoing tale, it left me hanging, but thankfully, I have the next book -- Wings -- in hand. Diggers continued to make me laugh out loud; Pratchett's wit absolutely delights me! I'm eager to continue the adventure in Wings.
    • 3/5
      Life for a "nome" has always been precarious as first experienced for generations living without detection by humans in a department store. After being forced out from there, they find shelter in the outbuildings of an unused rock quarry but only until humans start coming around again to reoccupy it. Where will they go to now, especially in the absence of one of their more crucial leaders? Terry Pratchett, the author, is an Englishman, and the reader gets a good sampling of wily, British attitude in the personalities of his characters. The whole thing comes off as kind of a Orwellian fantasy where little people perpetually question the motives and motivations of one another which leads to some clever verbal exchanges among them. One prominent nome in the story, Masklin, provides important dialogue that helps frame the conflict adequately before he is sent off to find answers elsewhere, leaving others to take on the bulk of the action and the decisions which need to be made. This is troublesome for the reader as the story would have been more enjoyable if the details of his quest were included along with the rest of the story. Diggers would be valuable as part of an in-class, science fiction library for sixth graders looking to gain exposure to good, solid examples of the genre.