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A Newbery Award-winning Author Children's Book Awards: Maryland, West Virginia, and South CarolinaJust when the Hatford brothers were expecting three boys to move into the house across the river where their best friends used to live, the Malloy girls arrive instead. Wally and his brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they'll want to go back to Ohio.From Kirkus ReviewsIt's not the Hatfields vs. the McCoys, but a feud nonetheless when the four Harfield brothers square off against their new neighbors, the Malloy sisters. It begins when Caroline, Edith Ann (Eddie), and Beth Malloy catch the Harfields dumping dead animals into the stream separating their properties; in response, Caroline--a consummate actress--plays dead, and as the horrified brothers watch, her sisters sadly throw her in. Once school starts, it's open war. With quick wits and inventiveness on both sides, the antagonists are evenly matched; and even when their pranks go awry, they suffer more fury (or embarrassment) than harm. Naylor has to labor hard to keep the rivalry going- -whenever it's about to die away naturally, someone decides it's too much fun to stop--so that the plot seems a lit

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Author

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

Publisher

Random House Children's Books

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780440409717

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, Young Adult

Rating

4.02 / 5 (1,392 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14