The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy

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Label

The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy

Title remainder

a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy

Statement of responsibility

Jeanne Birdsall

Creator

• trueBirdsall, Jeanne
• Birdsall, Jeanne

Subject

• Sisters -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
• trueVacations
• trueMansions
• Single-parent families
• trueRealistic fiction
• Sisters
• trueGardens
• trueGirls
• Vacations -- Juvenile fiction
• Single-parent families -- Fiction
• trueRich people
• trueWidowers
• trueSisters
• trueCottages
• Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction
• trueHumorous stories
• trueBerkshire Hills, Massachusetts
• Vacations
• trueSnobs and snobbishness
• Juvenile works
• trueFamily vacations
• Vacations -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Friendship -- Fiction
• trueFamilies
• trueSummer
• trueSingle-parent families

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueHumorous stories

Language

eng

Summary

While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four young sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother

Member of

• trueThe Penderwicks
• Penderwicks, bk. 1

Theme

• trueMeet the family

Tone

• trueUpbeat

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing

Character

• trueLikeable

Award

• Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan), Grades 4-5, 2007.
• National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2005.
• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2006
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2005
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2005.

Awards note

National Book Award, 2005.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.B51197

LC item number

Pe 2005

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

800

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 6

Series statement

Penderwicks

Series volume

[1]

Target audience

pre adolescent