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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could it be Gone-Away Lake? Main character's name is Portia. She stays with her cousin for the summer and they find an abandoned resort community by a dried-up lake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone-Away_Lake

Elizabeth Enright is one of my absolute favorite authors. I read all her books aloud to my kids, some of them two or three times, LOL.

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I'm dying to know if this is the book. Is it?![/quote]

PP here. Well, if it's not, you and OP should read it anyway. My kids (they were mid-elementary school at the time) LOVED it. And there is a sequel.

https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Away-Lake-Books-Paperback/dp/0152022724

https://www.amazon.com/Return-Gone-Away-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0152022562/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CSX7P77EG16GSSM8CC2F

I also HIGHLY recommend Enright's Melendy series. This is actually the second book, but the first one (The Saturdays) is not nearly as good as the other three, and you don't need it to get the other ones.

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Story-Mistake-Melendy-Quartet/dp/0312375999/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VE1WWNQWER4XJ51AX9VY

Thimble Summer is great, too--it won the Newbury medal--but I don't think it's as good as the 3rd and 4th books of the Melendy series, which are 2 of my all-time favorite books, children or adult.
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