About this title: While spending the summer together cousins Portia and Julian explore a colony of abandoned summer houses on the shore of a swampy lake.
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Edition: Book Club Edition. Scholastic Book Club
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Scholastic, United States
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780590409049ISBN:0590409042
Description: Krush, Beth & Joe. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Non-Smoking Environment. Scholastic Book Club. Good condition. Some shelf wear. Front cover has crease. Glued binding. 192pgs. Non-Smoking Environment. Scholastic Book Club. Good condition. Some shelf wear. Front cover has crease. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780153329715ISBN:0153329718
Description: Near Fine. NO JACKET. NF/NO DJ, likely unread, covers clean and crisp, interior is clean and bright, binding is tight, a very nice copy throughout. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780590409049ISBN:0590409042
Description: EXCELLENT. No Jacket. Type: USED All orders shipped media mail the following working day. Portia and her cousin Julian discover summer adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake. read more
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780590409049ISBN:0590409042
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. A former library book with the usual identifiers. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Fair. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harcourt
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780156364607ISBN:0156364603
Description: Krush, Joe, and Krush, Beth. Poor. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Gone-Away Lake Books (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
"Despite this being a newberry honor book, I only kind of enjoyed it. It's an awfully thick book but is only an AR level of 5.3. I don't think I'll recommend it to David or Faye because it just didn't capture me like so many other books out there can. It moved kind of slow for me, and nothing interesting enough happened in the story. It was very clean except for one black and white picture toward the end. They were exploring an abandoned house (there are several such explorations) and there is quite a risque statue found in that particular house that is illustrated in the black and white picture. Not terrible...perhaps comparable to famous nude art."
"This is a classic case of a continuing issue I have with my BT listmates: They mention a book. Over and over again. I finally get around to reading it. I adore said book, and then I kick myself for not picking it up years ago.
This is one of those children's books I wish I had discovered when I was still a kid. Little me would have been in absoolute heaven. I know this because big me was pretty much in heaven. Quirky grownups! Abandoned Victorian treasures! Attics full of antiques and trunks full of ball gowns! (from Worth, no less. Insert drool here.) And the ultimate wish fulfillment--parents that plan to buy one of the old mansions. Sigh.
It's like the perfect fantasy novel for folks that love antique and junk hunting. Plus, it's just funny. Silly me for waiting so long to finally pick it up."
""Do you suppose the mind ever lets go of a single thing?"
-Mrs. Cheever, "Gone-away Lake", P. 107
I would definitely give this book two and a half stars. Gone-away Lake is an exceedingly straightforward story, with simple themes that don't stray too far from what most readers tend to love about the books of Elizabeth Enright, yet it also succeeds in ways that are surprisingly profound. Perhaps more than any other writer of her day, Elizabeth Enright has a defined knack for telling long, intricate stories through her characters and building those stories with enough skill that they never show even a hint of becoming tedious. If one is looking for powerful emotional dialogue or gut-wrenching plot twists in a Newbery Honor book than Gone-away Lake is probably not the right one to read, but Elizabeth Enright just sets it all out on the table right from the get-go, letting us see the characters' full personalities without hidden agendas or dark secrets, and lets the nice family story unfold from there. Of course, as the Newbery Honor Medal on the cover might suggest, Gone-away Lake is more than only a nice family story; it packs a certain extra punch that most such books of the time period do not have. Undoubtedly, Elizabeth Enright was one of the best juvenile novelists of her time (a time that lasted for a good long while, spanning several decades), but I think that her simple, unadorned style could act well as a tonic for kids who read today, as well. Perhaps experiencing a pleasantly old-fashioned narrative like this could have some very positive effects, as it always has had in the shaping of my own values and thoughts. Gone-away Lake is a fine, well-crafted book, and I would recommend it.
"But if it were this way every day, all the time, we'd get too used to it. We'd toughen to it...People do. It's just because it doesn't and can't last that a day like this is so wonderful."
"11 year old Portia took a trip to visit her cousin, Julian. During a hunt for rare swamp bugs, they get lost and wonder to some empty-looking houses. They come across an old couple. Later, one of the houses is almost ready for a club!! At the end of a book, her parents say that they may move to one of the new houses. Portia hopes and prays. The answer of what'll happen is in the next book, "Return to Gone-Away.""
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