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Wings, book three of the "Bromeliad," series. At the end of Diggers, Gemma and the other nomes, trapped in a quarry surrounded by humans, were saved by the appearance of a spaceship recovered by Masklin.

Wings tells the story of Masklin, Grunder, and Angalo, guided by the ‘Thing’, as they sneak aboard a Concorde from London to Miami and make their way to within hailing distance of the space shuttle so that Thing can connect to its communication ports to summon their spaceship, which has been stored on the moon for thousands of years.

They meet a tribe of wild Nomes and are told that the world has thousands more tribes. Gemma and Masklin leave for the stars; Grunder stays behind to communicate with humans and the other Nomes.

The Bromeliad is an orchid that protects a colony of tiny frogs that leave their flower only when they outgrow it. This is used as a comparison to the Nomes who left their home to find a new home. This thread is used in all three books in the series.

Wings by Terry Pratchett