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| The Penderwicks on Gardam Street | 
| Author: Jeanne Birdsall
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1349
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0375840907
EAN: 9780375840906
ASIN: 0375840907
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW COPY, NO UGLY REMAINDER MARKS.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Delightful! July 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Maybe it's raining. Maybe everybody else is asleep and you're wide awake staring at the ceiling. Maybe it's a three hour drive to Grandma's and you're stuck in traffic. Maybe you had a very-bad-horrible-no-good day and you don't want to think about it anymore. You need a good, long, comforting read. Here it is. A few hours with the Penderwicks will make you feel good about the world. Is it full of nail-biting suspense and salacious gossip? Nah. It's warm. It's cozy. It's--dare we say it--wholesome! The kids are good kids who take good care of each other and their dad. They make some mistakes, but they learn from them and they do what they can to undo them. Their dialog sounds quite real and age appropriate without being trendy or coarse. The omniscient narrator leads us through the terrain of their lives with generous sentences, bestowing on us details that provide insight and clarity without tedium, not stinting in the use of the occasional five syllable word, sprinkling in some Latin just for the fun of it, showing us the how the world looks from the roof, from the secret rock, from under the forsythia bush. This beautifully paced meander feels like Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)or Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Aladdin Classics)or Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics: Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, and Mary Poppins Opens the Door, but it's not old and moldy. It's delightful!
Janet Gingold
author of Danger, Long Division
Very engaging novel July 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A nicely-paced sequel to the first Penderwicks novel. Entertaining with a lot of charm, in an old-fashioned sense. It cleverly tells a family story without having to be graphic or sarcastic. I highly recommend this!
 A Kid's Review June 14, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street is a great book by Jeanne Birdsall. Although it wasn't as trilling as The Penderwicks, I enjoyed it very much. This book made me laugh while reading and I love reading it over again. I recommend this book to readers age levels 9-12.
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street June 11, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
At first, when I read the book, I didn't think I would like it because the beginning was somewhat boring. Then I read the book a little further, and found that the book was very exciting. When I got to that point in the book, I couldn't put it down!
A review for adults who like kids' lit June 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the first Penderwicks book so when I saw this at the local bookstore, I snapped it up. Now, I haven't read the first one since it came out, and I had only vague memories of the girls and their exploits. This one is good in that "low-key adventures" type of way; it could almost have been one of the kids' books written in the '60s, when I grew up, because there are no references at all to technology except at the end when someone is holding a computer.
Because of Mr. Penderwick's tendency to fling out Latin blurbs, which tendency I don't remember from the first book, early in this sequel we are treated to definitions of "Bellatrix" and "cruciatus." This made me worry that the author would spend the entire book translating some of J.K. Rowling's terms for those Harry Potter readers who don't have an etymological background. However, after those two (which occured pretty early on), there were no more instances of that.
So, all in all I'd say it was a pretty good book.
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