The Penderwicks
by Jeanne Birdsall
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy is a children's novel by Jeanne Birdsall, published by Knopf in 2005. This was Birdsall's first book published and it inaugurated the Penderwicks series, whose fifth and final volume was published in 2018. Both The Penderwicks and its sequel The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Knopf, April 2008) were New York Times Best Sellers.The remaining books in the series are The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, The Penderwicks in Spring, and The Penderwicks at Last.
The Penderwicks won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature (United States).
In 2012 The Penderwicks was ranked number 29 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal.
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family, siblings, friendship, social themes, girls & women, juvenile literature, Juvenile works, Juvenile fiction, Single-parent families, Fiction, Vacations, Sisters, Sisters, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Vacations, fiction, Children's fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, Children's Middle Grade Books, children's literature, Dogs, Fathers and daughtersPeople
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The Penderwicks
2013, David Fickling Books
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
2007-03, Yearling
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The Penderwicks
January 24, 2006, Listening Library (Audio)
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The Penderwicks
2005, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Penderwicks: a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy
2005, Alfred A. Knopf
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| August 12, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
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| April 14, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
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