num_pages: 212
description: A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Porcia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new old house.Empty for half a century, ugly as a horned toad, Villa Caprice is a mildewy, cobwebby, boarded-up, junk-cluttered museum to a way of life long forgotten. But it is also a wonderland, filled to the rafters with fifty years' worth of treasures and secrets - small mysteries that Portia and Julian must solve to uncover the greatest secret of all....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 handsome new cover art by Mary GrandPré to complement Beth and Joe Krush's original interior illustrations.
language: English
title: Return to Gone-Away
titlecomplete: Return to Gone-Away
characters: Pindar Payton, Foster Blake, Portia Blake, Julian Jarman, Minnehaha Cheever
genres: Classics, Adventure, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 2804
places: New York (State), Attica, New York
series: Gone-Away Lake
publisher: Clarion Books