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  • The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

  • By: Jeanne Birdsall
  • Narrated by: Susan Denaker
  • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,577 ratings)

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The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

By: Jeanne Birdsall
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
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Publisher's summary

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
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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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Lovely

Lovely story and amazing performance! I liked him one's story better, however this was still excellent. I love how this series deals with family and growing-up issues in an age appropriate way with grace and much humor. I love the type of person or teaches you to admire. I also love that these books retain the secret and fantastic world of childhood, they promote trust and admiration of wise adults.

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test your body and it will help to prevent the nex

OMG so great 👍 😍 🙌 also the most hilarious 😆 🤣 book i have read

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Awesome!

These books have been amazing! My kiddos are 3,6, 9 and 11. We all enjoyed the first two. We can’t wait to start the third!!!!

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Awesome

Best series ever! Love it! If you like great books big families and the Aztecs this is the book for you!

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Amazing 😉

This book was amazing! So exciting. Just like the other books! There are more. And all of them are so awesome! There is one that is about there adventures in Arandel.

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yeah!

Delightful!! This book was wonderful and I listened to it in one day! I think that it's time to download book three.

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One of my FAVORITES!!!!

This book was amazing I have listened to it so many times. The story is great and so are the characters. Such an awesome story!!!!!!

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Amazing❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Very good and wonderful. I loved it❤️ the narration was great!!❤️❤️ I give it 100 stars

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Thoroughly Enjoyed It!

Although I think 12 years old is too young for a first mutual kiss, I do think this story was wonderfully written and well narrated. I plan to listen to the next book. BTW, I am not an "Audible kid". I am an "Audible Senior" and thoroughly enjoyed the story.

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This is a great book!😀

I really loved this book! I listen to it constantly, and start over when I finish it. This book I think everyone should read, because it is really realistic and it's just really fabulous.

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