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Then There Were Five (The Melendy Quartet)
Then There Were Five - The Melendy Quartet
Author: Elizabeth Enright
With the arrival of Mark Herron, an orphan whom the Melendys befriend in their usual wholehearted way, a summer already full of happenings reaches yet another level of richness and fun. — "All summer!" said Rush, with his mouth full. "Think of it. All summer long.""All summer what?" Mona wanted to know."Just all summer," Ru...  more »

"Sometimes it will rain. And sometimes we'll get stomach-aches. And sometimes Cuffy will be cross," said Oliver realistically.

Rush laughed. "A pessimist at seven."

With Father in Washington and Cuffy away visiting a sick cousin, almost anything might happen to the Melendys left behind at the Four-Story Mistake. In the Melendy family, adventures are inevitable: Mr Titus and the catfish; the villainy of the DeLacey brothers; Rush's composition of Opus 3; Mona's first rhubarb pie and all the canning; Randy's arrowhead; the auction and fair for the Red Cross. But best of all is the friendship with Mark Herron which begins with a scrap-collection mission and comes to a grand climax on Oliver's birthday.

Here is Elizabeth Enright's story of a long and glorious summer in the country with the Melendy family.
ISBN-13: 9780805070620
ISBN-10: 0805070621
Publication Date: 9/1/2002
Pages: 272
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Rating:
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Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 8
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