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Emily's fortune

While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.

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Main Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Other Authors: Collins, Ross (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Delacorte Press, c2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Orphans > Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels > Juvenile fiction.
Inheritance and succession > Juvenile fiction.
Uncles > Juvenile fiction.
West (U.S.) > History > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.
Physical Description:147 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780385736169 (alk. paper)
0385736169 (alk. paper)
9780385905893 (lib. bdg.)
0385905890 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana on January 4, 1933. She received a bachelor's degree from American University in 1963. Her first children's book, The Galloping Goat and Other Stories, was published in 1965. She has written more than 135 children and young adult books including Witch's Sister, The Witch Returns, The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel, A String of Chances, The Keeper, Walker's Crossing, Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry, Please Do Feed the Bears, and The Agony of Alice, which was the first book in the Alice series. She has received several awards including the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Cry and the Newberry Award for Shiloh.

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