Description
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
Local notes
Series: Penderwicks 1
Publication
New York: Yearling
Pages
262
Call number
Fiction, 21st century
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Young People's Literature — 2005)
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2008)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 2007)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 2010)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Honor — 2008)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2008)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2007)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2007)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2008)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2007-2008)
South Dakota Children's Book Awards (Nominee — 2008)
Great Lakes Great Books Award (Winner — 2007)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2007)
Indies Choice Book Award (Honor Book — Children's Literature — 2006)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2008)
The White Ravens (2006)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2009)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Children's Book Award — 2008)
Notable Children's Book (2006)
Idaho Battle of the Books (Elementary — 2022)