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Newbery
Gone-Away Lake
by Elizabeth Enright
Details
Pages
272
Word Count
48463
Lexile
760L
AR
5.3
Grade Level
G3 - G4
Genre
Realistic Fiction
Summary
Whittington is a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals? as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing? a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat who brought Dick Whittington to the heights of wealth and power in 16th-century England. This is an unforgettable tale about the healing, transcendent power of storytelling, and how learning to read saves one little boy.
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