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Much Ado About Grubstake by Ferris, Jean, 1939- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P>Plucky Arley and a cast of offbeat characters save their Wild West town from certain ruin.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Written in the same spirit as Audrey Couloumbus's The Misadventures of Maude March, Ferris's (Once Upon a Marigold) comical Wild West adventure introduces a group of wittily portrayed characters, all of whom live in Grubstake, a mining town that has seen better days. Orphaned at age 14, Arley Pickett, the owner of a boarding house, longs for the kind of excitement she finds in her "Penny Dreadful" novels. Then one day a mysterious city slicker presents Grubstake's citizens with "an offer no sane person would refuse." For reasons unknown, the stranger wants to buy all the town's mines, which have been closed for years. While some "Grubs" are eager to sell and move on, others, like 16-year-old Arley, are suspicious of the buyer's motives. Trying to get to the bottom of things, the teen finds herself in the middle of an adventure every bit as eventful as one in her Penny Dreadfuls, and manages to find romance as well as danger along the way. Readers will embrace the feisty heroine along with her quirky, down-and-out boarders and an assortment of colorful nei

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Author

Ferris, Jean, 1939-

Publisher

Harcourt Children's Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780152057060

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.76 / 5 (265 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14