num_pages: 280
description: A laid-off advertising man places a starting bid at a country auction and finds out that he bought a run-down farm - a humorous and somewhat idyllic picture of a family adapting to country living (although for Gran, it is a return to the farm life she loved) as World War II steadily worsens in Europe.
language: English
title: The Open Gate
titlecomplete: The Open Gate
genres: Classics, Childrens, Juvenile, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 56
publisher: Viking Juvenile