Return To Gone-Away is a children's book

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

  written by Elizabeth Enright

Elizabeth Enright

Elizabeth Enright was an American children's author and illustrator. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois.-Life:Her father, Walter J...

, which is the sequel to the book Gone-Away Lake

Gone-Away Lake

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.-Plot:...

and discusses how the Blake family buys a house in Gone-Away. The book was first published in 1961.

Plot introduction

When Portia learns of her parents buying Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house close to Gone-Away Lake, she imagines a whole new world of adventure. After all, a new house is always full of surprises. However, her dreams are shattered when she arrives to find the ugliest, cobweb-covered, junk cluttered old house that has been empty for half a century. But she and Julian soon discover that it is a wonderland filled with fifty year's worth of treasures and secrets with mysteries they must solve to uncover the greatest secret of all...