![]() In “The Penderwicks at Last,” 11-year-old Lydia, who wasn’t even born when the first book took place, comes to the fore, as she’s about to find out about the family’s storied summer spot in the Berkshires, Arundel, that shaped the lives of her older sisters in the first book. Now Birdsall has completed her fifth - and what might be the final - book in the series. The books have made for a best-selling series for elementary and middle-school readers. Northampton children’s author Jeanne Birdsall hit the big time when her very first book, “The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy,” won a National Book Award in 2005.īut that was just the start. Birdsall followed with three more volumes on the spirited Penderwick girls and their adventures in their home in the Massachusetts town of Cameron (a town that sounds a bit like a composite of Amherst and Northampton) with their absent-minded father, Martin, a college botany professor. ![]()
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