Also by Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Text copyright © 2008 by Jeanne Birdsall Illustrations copyright © 2008 by David Frankland Grateful acknowledgment is made to Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., for permission to reprint excerpts from The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Garth Williams, copyright © 1953, renewed 1981 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Visit us on the Web! www.randomhouse.com/kids
Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at www.randomhouse.com/teachers Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / Jeanne Birdsall ; [illustrations by David Frankland]. 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him. [1. SistersFiction. 2. Single-parent familiesFiction. 3. Dating (Social customs)Fiction. 4. Family lifeMassachusettsFiction. 5. MassachusettsFiction.] I. Frankland, David, ill. II. Title. PZ7.B51197Pen 2008 [Fic]dc22 2007049232 Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. eISBN: 978-0-37584961-9 v3.0