Then There Were Five, Elizabeth Enright
Then There Were Five, Elizabeth Enright
List: $27.95 | Sale: $19.00
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Then There Were Five

Author: Elizabeth Enright

Narrator: Pamela Dillman

Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2025


Synopsis

Come meet the four Melendy kids-Mona, Rush, Randy and Oliver!

With Father in Washington and Cuffy, their housekeeper, away visiting a sick cousin, almost anythin 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; Rush's composition of Opus 3; Mona's first rhubarb pie; Randy's arrowhead; and the auction! But best of all is the friendship with Mark Herron, which begins with a scrap-drive and comes to a grand climax on Oliver's birthday.

Here is the third in Elizabeth Enright's classic children’s series telling the tales of a long and glorious summer in the country with the resourceful, endearing Melendy bunch!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on May 22, 2019

This 1944 YA/middle grade novel is a charming, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, when kids explored the outdoors, swam in swimming holes, searched for Indian arrowheads, and fished for jumbo catfish. A livestock auction and homemade fair with a variety show of local talent provide enough excitement......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on October 29, 2017

We loved this Melendy story just as much as the first two. It's hard to keep up such good story telling, but Elizabeth Enright is such a talented writer, the story is beautiful, poetic, full of details of nature, the rhythm of the seasons, philosophy and the details of everyday life seem so natural......more

Goodreads review by Melody on July 04, 2011

7/11 Practically perfect, especially at the beginning of summer. I want a kitchen full of glowing canned goods, and a well full of gentians. I love, love, love this book. And we get to see Randy writing TATSINDA! 1/10 This is without a doubt my favorite Melendy book, what with all the botanizing. And t......more

Goodreads review by Tiffany on March 29, 2025

Just precious 🥹 I love the Melendy family!......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte on February 08, 2025

what struck me in this re-reading (my first in five or six years) is the extent to which the kids have rich inner lives. I think this influenced me a lot; like Randy and Mona, I still pretend I am someone else a lot. Latest rereading was for soothing comfort, which it delivered.......more