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The FourStory Mistake

The FourStory Mistake

by Elizabeth Enright

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appears in Classic and Fiction.

Into the FourStory Mistake, an oddlooking house with a confused architectural history, move the Melendy family Mona, Rush, Randy, Oliver, Father, and Cuffy, the housekeeper. Though disappointed about leaving their old brownstone in New York City, and apprehensive about living the country life, the four Melendy kids soon settle into this unusua...

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