The Penderwicks

A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall. So, believe it or not I HAVE been reading....so here will be a sequence of books I have been LISTENING to on my drive to and from classes! I don't normally drive much so I have missed the listening to books in the car. My husband and I do it on trips...but that is about it. So once I went back to school and had to be in the car for longer than 5 minutes...the books on CD have returned. So...I finished this one in May...probably mid May...it was a great story about four sisters who have lost their mother...their dad is raising them and they spend summers in a cottage. This year they didn't get their usual space and their dad found them a cottage close to a huge mansion with beautiful gardens. You have Rosalind the oldest at 12 who is more like a mother than a sister at times, Skye at 11 who loves sports and is very tomboyish, loud and opinionated sometimes at not especially good times, Jane at 10 who is an aspiring author, likes to write mysteries and the youngest is Batty, at 4 who enjoys wearing wings and talking to animals, people sometimes scare her..and then they have Hound, their dog...who is very wise as well! I immediately loved the characters and the story! I recommend it to anyone who loves a good read...or if you have daughters read it to them...it is fun!