Then There Were Five [Paperback]

With Father in Washington and Cuffy, their housekeeper, away visiting a sick cousin, almost anything might happen to the Melendy kids 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 classic story of a long and glorious summer in the country with the resourceful, endearing Melendy bunch.

Then There Were Fiveis the third installment of Enright's Melendy Quartet, an engaging and warm series about the close-knit Melendy family and their surprising adventures.

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.

Elizabeth Enright(1907-1968) was a talented writer whose many awards include the 1939 John Newbery Medal forThimble Summerand a 1958 Newbery Honor forGone-Away Lake. Among her other beloved titles are her books about the Melendy family, beginning withThe Saturdays(1941). Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published inThe New Yorker,Cosmopolitan,Harpers, andThe Saturday Evening Post.The Melendys are the quintessential storybook family...[their] ardent approach to living is eternally relevant. Publishers Weekly