The Penderwicks on Gardam Street »

Jeanne Birdsall lives in Massachusetss with her husband, four cats, a rabbit, a puppy, and a pet snail. She is working on another book about the Penderwick sisters.

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

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. (Apr.)

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Prologue 1

1 Rosalind Bakes a Cake 7

2 The Blue Letter 19

3 Bedtime Stories 27

4 Tempers Lost 38

5 The First Date 54

6 The Save-Daddy Plan 66

7 A Skating Coach and an Orange Cat 79

8 Funty and the Bug Man 92

9 Passes and Pizzas 104

10 Reversals 121

11 Clues 133

12 Jane's Grand Gesture 144

13 Nyet! 158

14 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches 174

15 Batty's Spying Mission 188

16 In Between the Stars 201

17 Halloween 216

18 Sisters and Sacrifice 230

19 All Secrets Revealed 245

20 The New Save-Daddy Plan 263

21 A Very Long Night 278

Epilogue 303