Return to Gone-Away

by Elizabeth Enright

Overview

Portia is ecstatic when she learns that her parents bought Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along of the edge of Gone-away Lake. Vacant for years, Portia and her cousin Julian explore the ghostly home with the help of elderly neighbors Mr. Payton and Mrs. Cheever.. Both children excited to uncover the secrets the old home hides.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515454830
Publisher:	Wilder Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	10/20/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	127
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	8 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Enright (1909-1968) grew up in New York in a family of artists. She spent her childhood drawing pictures and created both art and story for her first book, Kintu: A Congo Adventure, published in 1935. She later decided that she preferred writing to illustrating and went on to write many enduringly popular books, including a series about the Melendy family in The Saturdays, three other novels, and two long fairy tales, Tatsinda and Zeee. She won numerous awards, including the Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer (1938) and a Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake (1957).
 

Editorial Reviews

Vicarious adventures of the best sort...these are welcome reissues of Enright's lively stories.

Horn Book

Few writers can equal, and none surpass, Elizabeth Enright in absorbing narrative and sensitive characterization.

Cleveland Press

One of those rare and wonderful books to be read and enjoyed and savored.

Chicago Tribune

One of those rare and wonderful books to be read and enjoyed and savored.—Chicago Tribune
"Few writers can equal, and none surpass, Elizabeth Enright in absorbing narrative and sensitive characterization." —Cleveland Press
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