Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
	List Price:   $19.95 Unit Price:   $15.96 You Save:   $3.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0805070621 ISBN-13:   9780805070620 Publisher:   Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Edition:   Revised, illustrated Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   September 2002 Pages:   176 Format:   Hardcover; Cloth over boards Ages:   8 to 12 Grades:   3 to 7
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and a bit mischievous. Miranda is ten and a half. She loves dancing and painting pictures. Oliver is the youngest. At six, he is a calm and thoughful person. They all live with their father, who is a writer, and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, who takes on the many roles of nurse, cook, substitute mother, grandmother, and aunt.Elizabeth Enrights Melendy Quartet, which captures the lively adventures of a family as they move from the city to the country, are being published in new editions. Each of the books features a foreward and signature black-and-white interior illustrations by the author. Popular artist Tricia Tusa provides irresistible new cover art that will appeal to todays readers. The Melendys all live with their father, who is a writer, and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper. Enright's Melendy Quartet, which captures the lively adventures of a family as they move from the city to the country, is now available in new editions. Illustrations. 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,' Rush said happily. 'I mean this is only the beginning of it. Dams and swimming and the garden and picnics and hot days and all. Oh, boy.' '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. A summer that promises to be eventful turns into something extra special when the four Melendy children become friends with the ophaned Mark Heron.