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When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well-meant efforts are either more fun than profitable, or lead to trouble -- until one adventure has quite unexpected results.

There are six boys and girls in the Bastable family. Their mother is dead and their father's business is not doing well. The children decide to help restore the family fortune. ...

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When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well-meant efforts are either more fun than profitable, or lead to trouble -- until one adventure has quite unexpected results.

There are six boys and girls in the Bastable family. Their mother is dead and their father's business is not doing well. The children decide to help restore the family fortune. They try digging for treasure, being detectives, writing poetry. They answer an advertisment in the paper that leads them into one adventure after another.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780811854160
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
  • Publication date: 6/28/2006
  • Series: Nesbit Series
  • Pages: 192
  • Age range: 8 - 18 Years
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.62 (d)

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E. Nesbit (1858–1924) was a prolific children's author, writing more than 60 books including Five Children and It and The Railway Children.

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Table of Contents

'E. Nesbit and the Bastables' 1
1 The Council of Ways and Means 10
2 Digging for Treasure 21
3 Being Detectives 32
4 Good Hunting 48
5 The Poet and the Editor 59
6 Noel's Princess 69
7 Being Bandits 81
8 Being Editors 94
9 The G.B. 111
10 Lord Tottenham 127
11 Castilian Amoroso 139
12 The Nobleness of Oswald 159
13 The Robber and the Burglar 178
14 The Divining-rod 201
15 'Lo, the Poor Indian!' 214
16 The End of the Treasure-seeking 227
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  • Posted March 21, 2011

    its okay

    im reading this for school and its not so interesting

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