Much Ado About Grubstake

By Jean Ferris

Book Overview

Grubstake is a grubby down-on-its-luck mining town filled with grubby down-on-their-luck miners. So when a decidedly nongrubby city slicker shows up and offers to buy the tapped-out mines, the miners are sorely tempted. But not Arley, the brash sixteen-year-old girl who runs the boardinghouse. No, Arley smells a rat. What could some fancy-britches rascal want with empty mines? Is there more in those desolate pits than the Grubs realize? Like Jean Ferris's popular Once Upon a Marigold, this lighthearted, endearingly goofy story is packed with quirky, lovable characters and piercing insights.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152057064
• ISBN13: 9780152057060
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

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In this book, there is a dusty old town where a sixteen year old girl named Arley lives. She is a tough girl, with a bunch of dogs and grumpy old boarders who had kept forgetting to pay since...well...a long time ago. It was a good book. Not great, but I don't know why the critics were so harsh. Give it a chance!