Elizabeth Enright

New York City, the year before Pearl Harbor. The four Melendy children and their father -- a brilliant, impecunious scholar and lecturer -- live in a dilapidated house in the city, under the care of a strict but loving housekeeper. Their allowances don't stretch to much as individuals, so they decide to pool their cash and on each of four subsequent Saturdays one sibling gets to blow the lot. This is a well-written book that doesn't talk down to its audience; the chapter where the youngest boy goes to the circus, gets lost, and comes home riding a policeman's horse should be read out loud for the flavor of the prose. \

Set about 1940 on the windblown island of Pokenick, just off the coast of New Bedford, MA. Mab is spirited orphan who had been living with her Aunt Sarah in Iowa. Now she travels to Massachusetts to live with her Aunt Belinda Prior, where she will explore family history and make lasting friends in a close knit and quirky community.

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.

Tatsinda is considered an outsider by the people of the Tatrajanni kingdom. Her talent as a weaver has ensured that she can support herself--and perhaps win the love of the handsome Prince. But when an evil giant takes Tatsinda prisoner and plans to destroy the kingdom, it will take all the magic, skill, and love that Tatsinda and the Prince can muster to foil the giant and restore peace and beauty to the mountain.

Kintu must overcome his fear of the jungle if he is to one day succeed his father as chief of their village. Written in 1935 by a Newbery Award-winning author, this book was illustrated with silhouettes in black, white, and red and with full-color watercolor pages by Enright herself.

In this sequel to "Gone-Away Lake," eleven-year-old Portia and family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.

Once, Tarrigo Lake was an exclusive resort for a select handful of wealthy families; but when a modern dam diverts the water, the lake becomes a bog and the resort is abandoned and forgotten. Two children stumble across it by accident and befriend the elderly brother and sister who have come back to live there. This magically-written book was a Newbery runner-up.

Grade 11

A tiny fairy, who hates people because they are always destroying her houses and cannot see her, finds a special Person and a splendid house.

A summer that promises to be eventful turns into something extra special when the four Melendy children become five.

Children's novel set in 1930s rural Wisconsin. First published in 1938. A story about the various things that happen during the summer when Garnet Linden is nine.

Left alone when Rush, Mark, and Mona go away to school, Randy and Oliver are lonely and bored until a mysterious letter brings the first of many clues to a mystery that takes all winter to solve.