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The Worry Week - SAVE 50%!

The Worry Week - SAVE 50%!

by Anne Lindbergh
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

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Godine

Softcover
ISBN: 978-1-56792-239-4
Pages: 144
Size: 5.58" x 8.18"
Published: July 2003
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"Just think—we'll be on the island and we won't have a worry in the world."

When her parents are forced to cut short the family's visit to their summer cottage on a Maine island, eleven-year-old Allegra Sloane and her sisters—thirteen-year-old Alice and seven-year-old Edith (aka Minnow)—decide they'd much rather spend a week alone on the island than languish in steamy Boston. So the ever resourceful Allegra concocts a plan for herself and her sisters to surreptitiously remain behind.

At first everything proceeds according to plan; the girls slip away from their parents, (and avoid a visit to stuffy Aunt Edna) and the promise of freedom beckons brightly. Unfortunately, their plan has a few holes in it; when the girls return to the cottage they find it emptied of food. Allegra realizes it's up to her to provide for her impractical sisters. The bookish Alice is more interested in reading Nancy Drew stories and declaiming Shakespeare and Minnow is preoccupied with gluing seashells to every canister in the house.

Forced to fend for themselves, the girls learn to live off the land, gathering berries and chanterelles in the woods and mussels from the shore. Allegra learns perhaps the most important lesson: how stressful parenting can be. But the girls' adventures in survival are only half the story; for years rumors have suggested that their house contains a hidden treasure and this is enough to send the sisters off on a treasure hunt. The treasure they find is not buried gold but a trove that binds them closer to their family's history and to New England's literary heritage.

Anne Lindbergh's timeless seaside story is suffused with the carefree pleasures of childhood. Full of summer sun and mischief, set in her own summer home of North Haven, it confirms her place among the best storytellers the region has produced.

Anne Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh was raised in Darien, Connecticut and was the daughter of aviators and authors Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She was educated at Radcliffe College and at the Sorbonne in Paris. In her career as a writer, Ms. Lindbergh wrote fourteen books, most of them for children. She was the recipient of several honors for her work, including an award from the International Reading Association.

Kevin Hawkes
Kevin Hawkes was born in Texas and educated at Utah State University. After a short stint as a bookseller in Boston, he dedicated himself to true passion - illustrating children's books. He has illustrated over forty books for young people, including a Newbery Award winner, a Horn Book Award nominee, and dozens of New York Times bestsellers. He lives with his wife and children in Southern Maine.