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A wish come true.
That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Portia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new old house.
Empty for half a century, ugly as a horned toad, Villa Caprice is a mildewy, cobwebby, boarded-up, junk-cluttered museum to a way of life long forgotten. But it is also a wonderland, filled to the rafters with fifty years' worth of treasures and secrets-small mysteries that Portia and Julian must solve to uncover the greatest secret of all...
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- Age Level = 8-12
- Book Author = Elizabeth Enright
- Book Material = Paperback
- Book Publisher = Harcourt
- Book Publisher = Harper Trophy
- Book Series = Newbery Award
- Copyright = c1961
- Edition = 2000
- Grade Level = Elementary
- Illustrator = Beth and Joe Krush
- Condition = New
Item ID: 41630
Category: 7 An Experimental Mutiny