Return to Gone-Away
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About This Book
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 J...
Chapters (35)
- Return to Gone-Away
- Elizabeth Enright
- Return to Gone-Away
- 1
- A Wish Come True
- 2
- Return to Gone-Away
- 3
- The House
- 4
- The Victors
- 5
- The Sheep-Lady's Secret
- 6
- The House of Astonishment
- 7
- Another Beginning
- 8
- Gone-Away Housekeeping
- 9
- The Attic
- 10
- The Rescue Shell
- 11
- The Hot Spell
- 12
- The Plan
- 13
- The Night of the Full Moon
- 14
- Advice to Librans
- 15
- The Safe
- 16
- A New Old Name
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