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Snyder, Laurel.
PENNY DREADFUL
New York : Random House, 2010
IL 3-6, RL 5.2
ISBN 0375861998
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 Reminiscence of the Betsy Tacy stories, we meet 9 year old Penelope Grey who is living a lovely life.  Her parents have money and she lives in a mansion with servants and anything she wants.  When her father tells the family he has quit his job, she is in shock.  Quit??  What are they going to do?  Well, her mother has inherited a house in Thrush Junction, Tennessee and they are moving there.  Little do they know that the house has a huge mortgage and there are borders who have been allowed to stay.  What new life awaits Penny?  Will it really be dreadful?
SUBJECTS:     Country life -- Tennessee -- Fiction.
                        Family life -- Tennessee -- Fiction.
                        Resourcefulness -- Fiction.
                        Tennessee -- Fiction.

 
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