the penderwicks a summer tale of four sisters

Tifton to really dislike the Penderwick sisters and she isn't very happy about her son being friends with them. Unfortunately, events at Jeffrey's birthday party, a rather stiff affair to begin with, set the stage for Mrs. After a rocky start, it turns out that Jeffrey is a perfect fit for the Penderwick sister's adventures. But it is Jane who is sent to the mansion to apologize for Skye's remarks about his mother, and who brings him back to the cottage with her. It doesn't take long to discover that the boy is Jeffrey Tifton, 11 year-old only son of the estates cold-hearted owner.

On her way home, she runs into into the boy from the window, literally, knocking him out, then telling him to stay away from the very mean Mrs. Skye, whose father is a botanist, suggests he replant the rosebush outside the cottage. Tifton, telling Cagney to get rid of a beautiful rosebush. The next day, Skye decides to go exploring and overhears the estate's owner, the officious Mrs. Just before they leave to find the cottage, Jane spots a boy looking out of one of the mansion's windows. Luckily the gardener, Cagney, 18ish, is there to direct them to the cottage way at the back of the extensive estate.

Rented for three weeks, sight unseen, the Penderwicks certainly didn't expect it to be a huge mansion at the end of a long driveway. The Penderwick sisters - sensible Rosalind, 12, Skye, 11 and the only blue-eyed sister, Jane 10 and a budding writer and the creator of the Sabrina Starr stories, and shy Batty, 4 the wearer of orange and black wings, are off on a vacation with their widowed dad and their dog Hound at a cottage in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts called Arundel.

The penderwicks a summer tale of four sisters