The girls, horrified, formulate a “Save Daddy Plan,” but they are, of course, doomed to failure. She has brought a pale blue envelope entrusted to her by their beloved mother years earlier it contains a deathbed note in which Elizabeth Penderwick encourages her husband to date again.
This return to the Cameron, Mass., cul-de-sac home of the Penderwicks-romantic seventh-grader Rosalind, temperamental sixth-grader Skye, dramatic fifth-grader Jane, four-year-old Batty, and their widowed college-professor father, Martin, whom readers met in Birdsall’s 2005 National Book Award–winning novel-begins with a visit from his sister, the girls’ affable Aunt Claire.
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