NO CHILDREN, NO PETS

by Marion Holland ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 20, 1956

A good family story by the author of Billy's Clubhouse and Billy Had a System, shines up some ten-year-old humor and gives it a mystery to solve on the side. Don and Jane Sanders,- their baby sister Betsy, their widowed mother, and their sat, Victoria, leave their work-a-day-world in Philadelphia when a great uncle bequeaths them an apartment house in Palm Glade, Florida. They pack up and go visit it, pending a decision to sell, but in Florida one thing leads to another. Mr. Brundage, the superintendent, has disappeared. A huffy tenant, Mrs. Pennypacker, reports a ruby brooch stolen. Mike, a strange and rootless boy, becomes Don's friend. The upshot, which includes a hurricane and the decision to stay, reveals the accidentally misplaced ruby and uncovers Mr. Brundage not only as a man with his special and understandable problems, but as Mike's father as well.

Pub Date: March 20, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION