Gone-Away Lake
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| Author(s) | Elizabeth Enright |
| Illustrator | Joe and Beth Krush |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace & Co. |
| Publication date | 1957 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback), Audiobook |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 0-15-202272-4 |
| OCLC Number | 42736382 |
| LC Classification | PZ7.E724 Go 2000 |
| Followed by | Return to Gone-Away |
Gone-Away Lake is a 1957 children's book by Elizabeth Enright, set in that time period. In Return to Gone-Away, a sequel published in 1961, the Blake family buys a house in Gone-Away.
[edit] Plot
Gone-Away Lake starts on a train, traveling through the countryside of western New York state. Portia Blake and her brother Foster are coming to see their favorite cousin, Julian Jarman. Once there, Portia and Julian are walking in the forest when they discover an old Victorian resort community next to a bog. Elderly siblings Mr. Payton and Mrs. Cheever, the town's only inhabitants, soon become friends with the children, who set up a club in an abandoned house. Stories of the days when the bog was a lake called Tarrigo are interspersed with the modern-day adventures of Portia, and Julian, who at first keep the entire place and their new friends a secret. Foster soon discovers their secret and the rest of the members of the Jarman and Blake families also become acquainted with the charms of Gone-Away and its inhabitants.
[edit] Awards, praise and nominations
Gone-Away Lake received the New York Herald Tribune's Children's Spring Book Festival Award in 1957, in addition to the 1958 Newbery Honor. In 1963 the American Library Association named Gone-Away Lake as the U.S. nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. Also awarded to the book was the Lalachicachan Award in 1972.
The New York Times praised the book's "... brilliance and ... humor that make it seem as if it were happening right this minute."
