Truckers

Its place in The Bromeliad Trilogy

Truckers is book 1 in the The Bromeliad Trilogy series. It is followed by Diggers. See the full The Bromeliad Trilogy reading order.

Also known as the Nome Trilogy, this children's fantasy series follows the Nomes -- a race of tiny people, only a few inches tall, who have lived hidden inside a department store for a decade believing it to be the entire universe. Truckers (1989) begins when the store's imminent demolition forces the Nomes to make contact with the small band of 'Outside' Nomes who have survived in the wild, and to stage a desperate, resourceful escape aboard a stolen truck. It's Pratchett at his most inventive with scale…