num_pages: 260
description: With Father in Washington and Cuffy, their housekeeper, away visiting a sick cousin, almost anything magic might happen to the Melendy kids left behind at the Four-Story Mistake. In the Melendy family, adventures are inevitable: Mr. Titus and the catfish; the villainy of the DeLacey brothers; Rush's composition of Opus 3; Mona's first rhubarb pie and all the canning; Randy's arrowhead; the auction and fair for the Red Cross. But best of all is the friendship with Mark Herron, which begins with a scrap-collection mission and comes to a grand climax on Oliver's birthday. Here is Elizabeth Enright's classic story of a long and glorious summer in the country with the resourceful, endearing Melendy bunch.
language: English
title: Then There Were Five
titlecomplete: Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3)
genres: Middle Grade, Audiobook, Young Adult, Classics, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction, Family
ratings_count: 4543
series: The Melendy Family
publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)