Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls, The - Hardcover

Primavera, Elise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060569468 ISBN 13: 9780060569464

Publisher: HarperColl, 2006

Synopsis

For seven years, bad luck has followed Ivy around like a dog on a leash. Her father disappeared, her mother is a washed–up beauty–pageant winner, and now Viola and her mother have moved into a raqmshackle house on Gumm Street. Ivy's new neighbors–bookish Pru, stuck–up Cat, and wannabe adventurer Franny–are worse than unfriendly. But then a mysterious pair of ruby red slippers turn up, and the four girls are swept away...not to OZ, but to the jaw–droppingly strange lands of SPOZ, and SPUDZ, and OOZE, pursued by the fashionably mad Cha–Cha Staccato, who bears a frightening resemblance to a certain wicked witch....

Ages: 8 –12

About this title

About the Author

Elise Primavera has, like Ivy, suffered her fair share of jinxes in life and has found it helpful, like Cat, to consult the I Ching before making any important decisions. She often feels, like Pru, that the safest place in this danger-filled world is under a quilt with a good book. As Franny dreams of doing, she has made her mark in the world—but as a writer and illustrator of children's books and not as an explorer in the mold of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Among her many books are the national bestselling Auntie Claus and its sequel. This is her first novel, but it won't be her last, because like Hieronymus Gumm, she always likes to have the last word and is hard at work on another book about the Gumm Street Girls.

From AudioFile

Elise Primavera's first novel offers good fun with offbeat humor, wordplay, and the hint of more adventures to come. Colleen Delany's performance is a treat for the ears. Her vocal talents are prodigious as she creates unique voices and personalities for the four Gumm Street girls and every strange character they meet. Franny, Pru, and Cat have been unfriendly neighbors forever, with nothing in common but the street they live on. When Ivy moves in, burdened by a jinx who has haunted her for seven years, the four discover they need each other and their unique talents to find their way home through the magic of friendship. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperColl
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060569468
• ISBN 13: 9780060569464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448
• Illustrator: Primavera Elise