The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
-
-
4.8 • 147 Ratings
-
-
- $5.99
Publisher Description
With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager.
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. It’s high jinks, big laughs, and loads of family warmth as the Penderwicks triumphantly return.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Happy families are not all alike, as previously met characters continue to prove.The Penderwicks on Gardam StreetJeanne Birdsall. Knopf, (288p) This sequel to Birdsall's National Book Award winner, The Penderwicks, has even more charm than the original. The prologue hits the only maudlin note, flashing back to Mrs. Penderwick on her deathbed as she instructs her husband's sister, Claire, to make sure he finds love again after sufficient mourning. The Penderwick sisters Rosalind, Jane, Skye and Batty learn of this valediction four years later when Aunt Claire begins arranging blind dates. An emergency MOPS (Meeting of Penderwick Sisters) hatches the Save Daddy plan, in which the girls orchestrate dates so dreadful their father will see widowed life is best. Neighbors on Gardam Street include football-playing brothers Nick and Tommy (the latter plays Tracy to Rosalind's Hepburn), and two newcomers: a widowed professor and her toddler baby. Middle sisters Jane and Skye, who share a room but nothing else, steal the show by swapping homework assignments with hilariously catastrophic results. It's sheer pleasure to spend time with these exquisitely drawn characters, girls so real that readers will feel the wind through their hair as they power down the soccer field. Ages 8 12.
Customer Reviews
So Preppy!!!!!
I love this so much!! I’ve read up to the second book, so I low-key haven’t read this one yet. My favorite characters are Batty, Hound and Skye and Ben and Iantha. I look forward to reading the next ones as well. A must-read series!!!!!!
A. S. C. , age 12
Awesome
I love the penderwicks, I feel like they’re my second family
Wonderful
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street is a wonderful book about family love and friendship. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loved the first and is looking to continue the series. The book follows the same style as The Penderwicks with switching from one point of view to someone else’s which pulls you deeper into the book. I’ve read all of The Penderwicks books and I’m rereading them again. I’m so happy to have rediscovered the wonderful writing of Jeanne Birdsall and the world of the Penderwicks once more.