Henrietta Hickathrift is tired of living in an old age home. The people are boring, the food is dull, and there's nothing fun to do. So, on the morning of her 75th birthday, Henny decides to run away. With only $50 in her purse and all her belongings in a single suitcase, she takes a train to the seaside to begin a new life. That's where she meets the 5 children of the Good family who insist on taking her home for a proper birthday celebration. What begins as a party turns into an overnight stay -- and the overnight stay turns into a trial month as Henny makes herself useful around Ivy Cottage. Has Henny finally found a family to call her own -- or is she destined to be a stray forever?.
year: 1996, 2002, 1998, 3101, 1979
call number/section: 1000
subjects: old age, fiction, runaways, family life, runaway adults, elderly, family
Editions
King-Smith, Dick
Crown Publishers (1996)
When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.
Schools: 7
King-Smith, Dick
Dell Yearling (2002)
When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.
Schools: 1
King-Smith, Dick
Scholastic (1998)
When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.
Schools: 3
Dick King-Smith
Yearling (3101)
Henrietta Hickathrift is tired of living in an old age home. The people are boring, the food is dull, and there's nothing fun to do. So, on the morning of her 75th birthday, Henny decides to run away. With only $50 in her purse and all her belongings in a single suitcase, she takes a train to the seaside to begin a new life. That's where she meets the 5 children of the Good family who insist on taking her home for a proper birthday celebration. What begins as a party turns into an overnight stay -- and the overnight stay turns into a trial month as Henny makes herself useful around Ivy Cottage. Has Henny finally found a family to call her own -- or is she destined to be a stray forever?.
Schools: 0
Wyeth, Betsy James
Farrar, Straus, Giroux (1979)
The adventures of the animal inhabitants of the Ford and of one in particular, Lynch, who enriches life for them all.
Schools: 1