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Summary: Two cousins find new friends in a place out of the past.
Review: I first read this book as a child and have reread it every few years ever since. Enright deftly captures the exquisite poignancy of the perfect summer, and wraps her message about friendship and respect in a completely unique and enthralling adventure. A book to keep and cherish.
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Summary: Mystery, Fun & Adventure You Don't Have to Be a Kid to Love
Review: I first read this book at 11 or 12 and was thrilled with its re-release a few years ago. I've bought it for several nieces, nephews and young cousins and re-read it each time. The relationship between the young cousins and the old siblings is an enchanted, yet realistic one. Guaranteed to get even the most hardened youngster interested in reading.
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Summary: Enjoyable over and over and...
Review: I first read this book in the fourth grade. I fell in love with it, but had to return it back to the library. It wasn't until I was 28 that I got my hands on my own copy of it. This book has been on my re-read list now for 6 years. My younger daughter has read it and enjoyed it with the same delight that I have. No plot? Who cares? This is the type of book that you can sit and read without worrying about the details.
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Summary: A classic
Review: I first read this book when I was in fifth grade. I'm now in college and still enjoy it as much as I did the first time I read it.
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Summary: Re-visit your childhood
Review: I had been looking for this gem for years, and was overjoyed to finally run across a copy recently. Diving into this book again for the first time in many years really took me back to summers spent in the sun, reading this and other "children's" masterpieces. (This is not only a book for children, either.) Now I wish they would re-print its sequel, "Return to Gone-Away". PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: I Think it is a really funny book!
Review: I like this book because the characters are funny. I really like the part when they find the old trail. I think it is funny that Julian puts his sock on a stick to mark the place. I liked Foster because he reminds me of my little brother who also likes space and pie! Julian is funny because hes a 'science nerd' like me. You don't have to be 9 to like this book. I'm 8 and I liked it. Every kid should read it.
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Summary: Memories
Review: I loved this book when I was younger. I was a voracious reader, even then, but I was always drawn back to this one. There's a certain magic in it, a gentle sort of atmosphere that is certainly lost in today's children's fiction. I highly recommend it to those children who still have gentle souls and a yearning for good adventure, but I advise the cynical or brash to look elsewhere for reading material.
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Summary: Dated, but enchanting book for children and adults.
Review: I loved this novel, as well as "Return to Gone-Away". Both are equally good in my opinion. The characters, the setting, and the action draw youin, and you never want to leave! A perfect novel to get kids into reading! I'm 33 and still love these great books.
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Summary: Happy, Joyful, Where's the mysterious part?
Review: I perosnally belive that this book had no point in being published. The title is the only thing about this book that caught my eye. When I read the back I thought, how interesting, a mysterious swampy area discovered by two children. Then I read the book and kept on thinking to abandon it. But then when I finished the book, I realized my mistake. The book Gone-Away Lake is too happy and there are no problems to it whatsoever. It also catches your eye by its title because it sounds so mysterious, but that book just didn't work that way. I personally think that this book was horribly written and the it wasn't edited properly. It doesn't deserve a Newberry Honor.
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Summary: THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!
Review: I read this book as a child and fell in love with it. The characters--cousins Portia and Julian-- are introduced to eccentric older people when they discover 'Gone Away Lake' and learn to love and revere them for their wisdom and humor. The eccentric older people--Aunt Minnehaha and Uncle Pindar--treat the cousins and their friends like real people not like children.There is real magic in finding a place that has long since been forgotten, and then learning to appreciate its present beauty while learning about its history. Like another reviewer, I have never ceased to want to move to 'Gone Away Lake'. Somehow, I was fortunate enough, too, to have a copy of the sequel (many years old). READ IT! YOU WON'T REGRET IT!
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