The First Book of the Nomes.
The first book in the fantasy trilogy, 'The Bromeliad', by master storyteller Terry Pratchett.
To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. Then they hear that the Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's up to one nome, Masklin, to mastermind an unbelievable escape plan that will take all the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside . . .
The first title in a magnificent trilogy about the nomes, a race of little people struggling to survive in a world of humans.