Elizabeth Enright

Gone-Away

1 - Gone-Away Lake (1956)
2 - Return to Gone-Away (Jun-1961)

Melendy Quartet

1 - The Saturdays (1941)
2 - The Four-Story Mistake (1942)
3 - Then There Were Five ()
4 - Spiderweb for Two (Aug-1987)

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  Thimble Summer
  

  • 1939
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  Garnet found a silver thimble in the sand by the river and she was sure it had magic, for the summer had proved exciting and interesting in so many different ways. There was the coming of Eric, an orphan and such a nice addition to the family; the bu...

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  The Saturdays
  

  • 1941
  • / Historical
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  Melendy Quartet - 1
  

  “Enright has a quick eye for the unexpected, the amusing and the beautiful in what might be just ordinary experiences. . . . [A] highly diverting tale.” -- The New York TimesMeet the Melendys! The four Melendy children live with t...

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  The Four-Story Mistake
  

  • 1942
  • / Historical
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  Melendy Quartet - 2
  

  It's a house full of secrets--and it's all theirs! Mona, Rush, Randy, and Oliver Melendy have lived in the city their whole lives. How can they move to a house in the country that they've never seen? But what their father says goes, and soon they'...

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  Gone-Away Lake
  

  • 1956
  • / General Fiction
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  Gone-Away - 1
  

  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 han...

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  Return to Gone-Away
  

  • Jun-1961
  • / General Fiction
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  Gone-Away - 2
  

  In this sequel to "Gone-Away Lake," eleven-year-old Portia and family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures an...

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  Spiderweb for Two
  

  • Aug-1987
  • / General Fiction
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  Melendy Quartet - 4
  

  Randy and Oliver Melendy awake one fall morning full of gloom. Their brother and sister are away, the house seems forlorn and empty, and even Cuffy, their adored housekeeper, can't pick up their spirits. Will they have to face a long and lonely winte...

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  Tatsinda
  

  • Mar-1991
  • / General Fiction
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  Then There Were Five
  

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  Melendy Quartet - 3
  

  From a Newbery Award winner, this classic story of the adventures of four siblings who befriend an orphan “will leave you with a warm and pleasant glow” (Kirkus Reviews).With Father in Washington and Cuffy, their housekeeper, away visiting a sick...

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Award-Winning Books by Elizabeth Enright

Thimble Summer
1939 Newbery Medal -- Children's