Gone-Away Lake
First edition cover with Krush artwork | |
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Beth and Joe Krush |
| Cover artist | Krush |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & Co. |
Publication date | 1957 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback), audiobook |
| Pages | 192 pp. |
| OCLC | 42736382 |
| LC Class | PZ7.E724 Go |
| Followed by | Return to Gone-Away |
Gone-Away Lake is a children's novel written by Elizabeth Enright, illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush, and published by Harcourt in 1957. It was a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal and was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1970. It tells the story of cousins who spend a summer exploring and discover a lost lake and the two people who still live there.
Enright, the Krushes, and Harcourt produced a sequel published in 1961, Return to Gone-Away, in which the children's family buys a house near Gone-Away.