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Synopsis
The Conroys are no ordinary family. For a start, they don't have a television. Nor are they allowed to keep pets. And Mr and Mrs Conroy never take their daughters - Ruth, Naomi, Rachel and Phoebe - on holiday. But then Mr and Mrs Conroy inherit GBP5000, and, to their daughters' dismay, decide to spend it redecorating the house over the summer. So the girls are packed off to Big Grandma's house for the holidays, where lots of chores and horribly long walks await them. At first it seems as though Big Grandma is determined to put a stop to any fun. But, being Conroys, the girls soon find novel ways to entertain themselves, and start having as many adventures and mishaps as usual ...and after a while, even Big Grandma doesn't seem so bad ...
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About the Author
Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Award with her first novel, The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved similar recognition - The Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize and the Dog Friday trilogy was critically acclaimed. A graduate of Botany and Zoology from St Andrews University, Hilary now writes full-time. She lives in Derbyshire with her husband and children.
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8-The four Conroy sisters are the most original bunch of siblings to come along since Helen Cresswell's Bagthorpes. They share common traits of impulsive, imaginative, and often imprudent behavior, but each one has a purely original and distinct personality. Then there's Big Grandma, their summer caretaker, who is at once frustrated, entertained, and bewildered by the bizarre antics of her young relations. Anti-Summer Reading Award: Big Grandma hides most of her library away from her four book-crazy grandchildren, leaving them "stuck" with The Annotated Shakespeare and "a heap of cookery books."
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- PublisherOrion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0575049340
- ISBN 13 9780575049345
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1991
ISBN 10: 0575049340
ISBN 13: 9780575049345
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Hardcover
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001921899
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THE EXILES.
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London: Gollancz, (1991.) dj, 1991
ISBN 10: 0575049340
ISBN 13: 9780575049345
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Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover first edition - First printing. A very funny book - "It was rather sad that two people whose only ambition was a life of security and peace should have been blessed with Ruth, Naomi, Rachel and Phoebe." Despite their protests, these four lazy, book-loving and inventive sisters are sent to spend the summer with their formidable Big Grandma in Cumbria, who tries in vain to reform them. The first in the series, and the first children's book by the author of "Dog Friday" and the Whitbread prize winning "Saffy's Angel." 191 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, light crease to upper corner of first few pages.) Uncommon in the hardcover first edition. Seller Inventory # 43422
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