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The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

By: Jeanne Birdsall
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
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Amazon Best of the Year

Book Sense Children's Pick List

Maine Student Book Award

Massachusetts Children's Book Award

Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year

Texas Bluebonnet Master List

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 best seller 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.

©2008 Jeanne Birdsall (P)2008 Listening Library Action & Adventure Classics Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Adventure Funny

Critic Reviews

Starred Review, School Library Journal, March 2008: "This is a book to cherish and to hold close like a warm, cuddly blanket that you draw around yourself to keep out the cold."

Starred Review, Booklist, May 1, 2008: "Just the sort of cozy fare that's missing in today's mean-girl world."

Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, April 28, 2008: “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.”
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A safe story of old school values set amidst a wonderful American family. Great listen for kids and adults.

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I love this good as a feel good book before I go to bed. I wished I can read all the Penderwicks books! I have tried many other audiobooks and this is the first time I am writing a review. It is worth it. ☺️

I am an adult and love it!

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Loved this (and I am definitely an adult!). Lovely characters, great story and beautifully narrated.
Highly recommended!

A beautiful, gentle tale....

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