The Book Depository Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
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Description: Gone-Away Lake : Paperback : Cengage Learning, Inc : 9780152022723 : 0152022724 : 01 Mar 2000 : Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake. The Book Depository Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780152022723
MPN: 0152022724
GTIN: 9780152022723
Author: H. Petre
Rating: 5
Review: Great book for younger children of say, seven or eight, who want to read a 'chapter book". Personally, I prefer the Melendy Quartet by the same author, which seems aimed at slightly older children, maybe aged ten or so. The resolution at the end of this is a little too pat for my liking, but these books were written in the 1950s when things were a little different! What I enjoyed was the memories it brought back of being free to play outdoors all day without adult intervention: the idea that nature is a great playground, that people one meets are essentially benign. that having adventures and taking risks are good ways to learn about the world and one's place in it. We don't hear so much of that perspective nowadays, and society is the poorer for it.
Author: Ancient Mariner
Rating: 4
Review: There is something fundamentally cool about ghost towns and abandoned places. Here in Colorado there are lots of old mining towns that have gone from populations in the thousands to zero, leaving behind buildings, foundations, railroad tracks, mining equipment, and so on. Sad to say, even these abandoned remains are disappearing, making the exploration of ghost towns more of an experiment in imagination than a real possibility. That's where this book comes in. It is a calm and pleasant book. Children are cheerful, energetic and imaginative. Adults are open and flexible. Strangers are polite and non-threatening. Siblings get along. Gone-Away Lake is like an abandoned furnished playground, and it invites the reader to day dream about mild summer adventure. Will this be tedious for some readers? Absolutely. Will it charm others? You bet. The book is not great literature and it's not sappy pablum. The author just creates an interesting place and invites the readers to wander in. Whether they enjoy the visit is up to them.
