- Families, Family, Single-parent families, Juvenile fiction
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
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Classical in form, spare, intimate and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Jeanne Birdsall
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 314
- Publisher
- Salamandra, Knopf Books for Young Readers, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Polish, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9781407044712
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