This book picks up several months after “Gone-Away Lake” ends, and it’s just as delightful as the first.
Reading this book made me want to buy an old forgotten house filled with who knows what, and explore it, remake it, and live in it. Once again the characters are unique and fun, There is more about the house than Gone-Away, but that was okay. Uncle Pin and Aunt Minnehaha were still in the story, still ready to tell tales of long ago, and still up for fun.
Julian had me grinning with his plan for “self discipline” and what came of it.

There were not nearly as many euphemisms in this book, and only a few slang words, so I enjoyed it more. This is not a Christian book, and there is a small scene of Portia and her friend Lucy reading an old book titled “Mme. Vavasour’s Gypsy-Witch Fortune Teller” but they quickly realize that it’s all a bunch of nonsense.