Middle sisters Jane and Skye, who share a room but nothing else, steal the show by swapping homework assignments with hilariously catastrophic results. 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. 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. The Penderwick sisters-Rosalind, Jane, Skye and Batty-learn of this valediction four years later when Aunt Claire begins arranging blind dates. Penderwick on her deathbed as she instructs her husband's sister, Claire, to make sure he finds love again after sufficient mourning. The prologue hits the only maudlin note, flashing back to Mrs. This sequel to Birdsall's National Book Award winner, The Penderwicks The Penderwicks on Gardam Street Jeanne Birdsall Happy families are not all alike, as previously met characters continue to prove.
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