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    Emily's Fortune
    Audiobook2 hours

    Emily's Fortune

    Written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Narrated by Lee Adams

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains.

    Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned, she is left all alone except for her turtle, Rufus.

    What in blinkin' bloomers should Emily do?

    Emily's neighbors, Mrs. Ready, Mrs. Aim, and Mrs. Fire, have the answer: Emily must travel by stagecoach to the home of her honorable aunt Hilda.

    What a rootin' tootin' grand idea!

    But Miss Catchum of the Catchum Child-Catching Services will get a big bonus for delivering Emily to her next of kin, the vicious Uncle Victor.

    How the ding dong dickens will Emily escape Miss Catchum?

    It will take all the gumption and cunning of fellow orphan and traveler Jackson to help Emily find her confidence, her conniving spirit, and the true reason Uncle Victor wants to claim her.

    But how in flippin' flapjacks will Emily outsmart Uncle Victor?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 8, 2010
    ISBN9780307738028
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    Emily's Fortune
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    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written more than 135 books, including the Newbery Award–winning Shiloh and its sequels, the Alice series, Roxie and the Hooligans, and Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard’s Roost. She lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland. To hear from Phyllis and find out more about Alice, visit AliceMcKinley.com.

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    3.5/5

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    • 3/5
      This was a fun read. I loved the playful endings to each chapter.
    • 2/5
      When Emily's mother dies, there is no one left to take care of her -- only her terrible uncle (who just wants her money) and so she must run away to an "aunt" who will take her in and treat her right. Along with the help of Jackson, another orphan travelling by buggy, Emily must trick her uncle and keep away from Miss Catchum (who also just wants her money) of child services. I did not like the hokey chapter endings...if they didn't exist I think I would have given the book three stars. The whole thing just felt very fake and forced, though young readers might get a kick out of it.
    • 4/5
      Grades 3-4
      After Emily is orphaned, the kindly neighbor ladies (Mrs. Ready, Mrs. Aim, and Mrs. Fire) help her plan her journey to Aunt Hilda in Redbud-- and just in the nick of time, for the Catchum Child-Catching Services is hot on her heels. Mrs. Catchum doesn't care if she has a loving aunt in Redbud who wants her; she gets a "super-duper-dinger-zinger bonus" if she gets Emily to her closest living blood relative. That would be evil Uncle Victor, and Emily does NOT want to live with him. While she is on her perilous stagecoach journey to Redbud, she is befriended by another orphan, Jackson. Emily also finds out that the reason that Uncle Victor is so set on finding her is that she is the sole heir to the $10 million left by her mother's employer. It's a rootin' tootin' Wild West adventure as Emily and Jackson try to outrun, then outsmart, Uncle Victor and make it safely to Aunt Hilda's.
    • 4/5
      Fun adventure yarn about an orphan girl in the old west. I could have done without the colloquial turns of phrase.
    • 4/5
      A short, quick read suitable for middle elementary students or younger if they are good readers. An moderately lighthearted introduction to the Wild West, even though the two main characters, Emily and Jackson, are orphans and on the run from child-catchers. They are trying to get to Emily's kind Aunt Hilda before the child-catchers or her mean Uncle Victor find her. Modes of travel? Train, then very crowded, stinky and bumpy stagecoach. When Uncle Victor appears on the scene, Jackson helps Emily disguise herself as a boy who can't talk. Jackson, who's been an orphan longer, amazes Emily with his ability to think on his feet.
    • 2/5
      An okay tale of the old West involving a pair of orphans and an evil uncle who is after Emily's fortune.