num_pages: 180
description: 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.Portia always expects summer to be a special time. But she couldn't imagine the adventure she and her cousin Julian would share this summer. It all starts when they discover Gone-Away Lake--a village of deserted old houses on a muddy overgrown swamp."It's a ghost townm" Julian says. But the cousins are in for a bigger surprise. Someone is living in one of those spooky-looking old houses.
language: English
title: Gone-Away Lake
titlecomplete: Gone-Away Lake
characters: Pindar Payton, Minnehaha Cheever, Julian Jarman, Portia Blake, Foster Blake
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Classics, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Audiobook
ratings_count: 7880
places: New York (State), Attica, New York
series: Gone-Away Lake
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 28800000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.