Gone-Away Lake

Gone-Away Lake
First edition cover with Krush artwork
AuthorElizabeth Enright
IllustratorBeth and Joe Krush
Cover artistKrush
GenreChildren's novel
PublisherHarcourt, Brace & Co.
Publication date
1957
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover, paperback), audiobook
Pages192 pp.
OCLC42736382
LC ClassPZ7.E724 Go
Followed byReturn 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.