The Borrowers Avenged is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1982 by Viking Kestrel in the UK and Harcourt in the US. It was the last of five books in a series that is usually called The Borrowers, inaugurated by The Borrowers in 1952. The book received a positive reception by critics. New York magazine called it a "well-drawn portrait ...wittily told" while Country Life called it "a modern classic in the making".