| Authors: |
Birdsall, Jeanne.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Sisters -- Fiction.
Single-parent families -- Fiction.
Vacations -- Fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2005. |
| Description: |
262 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0375831436 (trade) 0375931430 (lib. bdg.) |
| Notes: |
A Junior Library Guild selection. |
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Table of contents
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| Contents: |
Boy at the window -- Tunnel through the hedge -- Moops -- Apology -- New hero -- Rabbits and a long ladder -- Borrowed finery -- Birthday dinner -- Shocking news -- Bold escape -- Another rescue -- Sir Barnaby Patterne -- Piano lesson -- Midnight adventure -- Shredded book -- Runaway -- Next-to-last day -- Good-bye for now. |
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| Rating: |
5 out of 5: They loved it |
| Community reviews |
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The penderwicks by kmcarter |
| A light hearted book. Easy to read. Enjoyable |
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| Summary: |
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother. |