By Jeanne Birdsall
Publication Date: April 8th, 2008 (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Genre: Childrens; Realistic Fiction;
Source: Library
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The Penderwick sisters are home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure! But the adventure they get isn't quite what they had in mind. Mr. Penderwick's sister has decided it's time for him to start dating—and the girls know that can only mean one thing: disaster.
Enter the Save-Daddy-Plan—a plot so brilliant, so bold, so funny, that only the Penderwick girls could have come up with it. But in the meantime, they have some other problems to deal with. Rosalind can't seem to get the annoying Tommy Geiger out of her hair—and she can't stand him, really. Skye loses her temper on the soccer field in a most undignified manner. Jane's love of creative writing leads her into deep waters. And Batty's getting into mischief spying on the new next-door neighbor. As for Hound, he's always in trouble.
It's high jinks, big laughs, and loads of family warmth as the Penderwicks triumphantly return!
—from the book's dust jacket
—from the book's dust jacket
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Jeanne Birdsall, one of my favorite authors.
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street is the sequel to the first book in The Penderwicks Series, The Penderwicks: A Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, which won the National Book award for Young People's Literature in 2005.
You'll fall in love with main characters Rosalind, Skye, Jane, and Batty all over again, and I'm so speechless that I can't really say much else about this unique book.
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street had this utterly timeless feeling, just like the first one. In other words, even though I'm only seventeen, I know I'll be reading The Penderwicks to my children before they go to bed (and it will be accompanied with milk tea and a warm slice of honey lavender loaf). The Penderwicks: A Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, the first Penderwick book, was better than The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, but not by a long shot.
Twice I've read a Penderwick book, and twice I've never wanted to leave the Penderwick dominion. I want to live for all and eternity in The Penderwick book. Once again, I was so upset when The Penderwicks on Gardam Street ended, and once again, I never wanted to finish it because it was so perfect, enchanting, and whimsical.
Lovers of Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, or Little Woman, by Louisa May Alcott will be delighted with any Penderwicks book.
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