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The Big House
By Coman, Carolyn
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-93242-509-3
- Publisher
- Front Street
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2004
Gr 3-6 In a real departure from her previous novels, Coman has created an enjoyable romp of a mystery. The story opens with a guilty verdict against Dan and Carol Fitts, the admittedly crooked parents of resourceful Ivy and her younger brother, Ray. The children are placed in the care of Marietta Noland, the snooty person who accused their parents of embezzling her father's money. The children will be the first beneficiaries of Blackstone Mouton's Last Best Hope Charity. Intrepid Ivy, who comes fro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2005
Ivy, her little brother Ray, and their parents are all doing time in the Big House—just not the same one. While their parents begin a twenty-five-year sentence for embezzling from a children's charity, Ivy and Ray are ordered by the judge to live with the charity's highly unpleasant founders, the smug and snooty Marietta Noland and her so-old-he's-practically-dead husband, in their gargantuan mansion, La G...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
