The Penderwick sisters are at home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure! But the adventure they get isn\"t quite what they had in mind. Mr Penderwick\"s sister has decided it\"s time for him to start dating - which can only mean one thing: disaster....

The Penderwicks: four sisters, as different as chalk from cheese, yet as close as can be. The eldest, Rosalind, is responsible and practical; Skye, stubborn and feisty; dreamy, artistic, budding novelist, Jane; and shy little Batty, who doesn\"t go anywhere without her butterfly wings. And not forgetting Hound, their large lumbering lovable dog....

No one saw what happened. No one will talk about it. But 2-year-old Hal is dead. Whose fault is it? Within a volatile and unpredictable family, May O\'Mally, the oldest of six siblings, must come to terms with her own guilt, as well as the mysterious connection she forges with her deceased baby brother....