Gone-Away Lake / Elizabeth Enright ; illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush.
Material type: TextPublication details: San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt, Inc., 2000.Edition: First Harcourt young classics editionDescription: 256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0152022740
- 9780152022747
- 0152022724
- 9780152022723
- 9780758702647
- 0758702647
- 9781435264458
- 1435264452
- Newbery Honor Book, 1958
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | ENRIGHT ELIZABET | Available | 33111010777114 |
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