Name: Gone-Away Lake
ISBN: 9780152022723

Elizabeth Enright

Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.

Gone-Away Lake

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4 ★ - (really liked it)

I liked this every bit as much as the first time I read it! AND SOMEHOW DIDN'T REALIZE THEY WERE VICTORIAN HOUSES??!! I did not recall that but I read this before my obsession started XD Min and Pin are dears and I loved the descriptions of Gone-Away. A lovely story! (only reason I'm not rating it a 4.5 stars is because I don't care much for the the children except maybe the Blakes lol, the adults are amazing though) 

CWs: "heck" is used quite a bit, mentions of the possibility of ghosts

2/20/24

Sarah Sammis

Fantastic book about an abandoned village of Victorian style homes at the edge of an overgrown lake.

Laura Mauler

From the description on the back of the book I thought this was going to be a mystery, or a thriller/adventure book. It was not, but it was a very sweet tale of 1950s children discovering a 1900s vacation village. In the end my disappointment at the lack of adventure was overcome by the charm of the characters and their wonder at discovering a living time capsule.

Gone-Away Lake

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