Emily Upham's Revenge: A Massachusetts Adventure

by Avi

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During the summer of 1875, a seven-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle in Massachusetts and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery.

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I was intrigued by the title of this book and enchanted by the illustrations. It is a cute tale for kids, but it was predictable and read like the illegitimate child of Mark Twain and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
During the summer of 1875, a seven-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle in Massachusetts and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery.

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Avi was born in 1937, in the city of New York and raised in Brooklyn. He began his writing career as a playwright, and didn't start writing childrens books until he had kids of his own. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Original publication date
1978
Important places
Massachusetts, USA

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Genres
Children's Books, Fiction and Literature, Kids
DDC/MDS
487LanguageClassical Greek and related Hellenic languagesPreclassical and postclassical Greek
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PZ7 .A953 .ELanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres

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Languages
English, German
Media
Paper
ISBNs
7
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