Then There Were Five

Infobox Book
name = Then There Were Five


image_caption = Cover art for the January 2008 re-issue
author = Elizabeth Enright
country = United Kingdom
language = English
genre = Children's literature
publisher =
pub_date = 1944
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 272 pp
isbn = NA
oclc =

"Then There Were Five" (1944) is a children's novel by Elizabeth Enright, the third of her four books about the Melendy family, preceded by " The Saturdays" and "The Four-Story Mistake", and followed by "". The four Melendy children live with their father, a widowed professor of economics, and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twelve-year-old mischievous Rush; ten-and-a-half-year-old Randy, who loves to dance and paint; and thoughtful Oliver, who is just six.

Plot introduction

With Father in Washington and Cuffy, their housekeeper, away visiting a sick cousin, almost anything 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; the villainy of the DeLacey brothers; Rush's composition of Opus 3; Mona's first rhubarb pie and all the canning; Randy's arrowhead; the auction and fair for the Red Cross. But best of all is the friendship with Mark Herron, which begins with a scrap-collection mission and comes to a grand climax on Oliver's birthday. cite web | url=http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/product-description/0312376006/sr=11-1/qid=1219086949/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=916520&s=books&qid=1219086949&sr=11-1 | title=Then There Were Five (Paperback) | publisher=Amazon.ca | accessdate=2008-08-18 ]

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