- Brothers and sisters, Family, Juvenile fiction, Household Moving
The Melendy family leave their New York brownstone and move to the country. The house is quirky with lots of odd additions including the fourth floor, the mistake. The family adjusts to their new home with both small and big adventures.
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Classical in form, warm, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Elizabeth Enright
- First published
- 1942
- Pages
- 177
- Publisher
- Square Fish, Puffin Books, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780312375997
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“WELL, thank goodness there aren't going to be any more children here anyway!"" said Randy crossly."”
Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham (September 17, 1907 – June 8, 1968) was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Perhaps best known as the Newbery Medal-winning author of Thimble Summer (1938) and the Newbery runner-up Gone-Away Lake (1957), she also wrote the popular Melendy quartet (1941 to 1951). A Newbery Medal laureate and a multiple winner of the O. Henry Award, her short stories and articles for adults appeared in many popular magazines and have been reprinted in anthologies and textbooks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Enright
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