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Gone-Away Lake / Elizabeth Enright ; illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt, Inc., 2000.Edition: First Harcourt young classics editionDescription: 256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0152022740
  • 9780152022747
  • 0152022724
  • 9780152022723
  • 9780758702647
  • 0758702647
  • 9781435264458
  • 1435264452
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The beginning of it all -- The stone and the swamp -- Gone-away -- "My brother Pindar" -- The second time -- The knife and the buttonhook -- Bellemere -- The club -- The gulper -- The broken secret -- Members -- The summer cats -- Gone-away days -- The Villa Caprice -- The Villa Caprice again.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 1958
Summary: Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction ENRIGHT ELIZABET Available 33111010777114
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Summer has a magic all its own in Elizabeth Enright's beloved stories about two children and their discovery of a ghostly lakeside resort. These two modern classics are once again available in Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic editions, but now with handsome new cover art by Mary GrandPré to complement Beth and Joe Krush's original interior illustrations.

"An Odyssey/Harcourt young classic."

Sequel: Return to Gone-Away Lake.

Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.

The beginning of it all -- The stone and the swamp -- Gone-away -- "My brother Pindar" -- The second time -- The knife and the buttonhook -- Bellemere -- The club -- The gulper -- The broken secret -- Members -- The summer cats -- Gone-away days -- The Villa Caprice -- The Villa Caprice again.

Ages 8 and up.

760 Lexile.

Accelerated Reader 5.3.

Reading Counts! 6.1.

Newbery Honor Book, 1958

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