cover image Then There Were Five

Then There Were Five

Elizabeth Enright. Puffin Books, $4.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-14-038397-3

Favorites from the 1940s series that began with The Saturdays, these stories of rural adventure feature the four Melendy children. In the first book, they befriend an orphan and dam a local stream. In the second, the younger boys receive a series of mysterious letters. Enright's own drawings are reprinted. Ages 8-12. (Nov.)