The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street is a children's novel by Jeanne Birdsall, published by Random House Children's Books in 2008. It is the second book in the Penderwicks series, and is preceded by The Penderwicks. Both The Penderwicks on Gardam Street and The Penderwicks were New York Times Best Sellers. The books in the series also include The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, The Penderwicks in Spring, and The Penderwicks at Last, the last of them being published in 2018.

Plot
Rosalind, Skye, Jane, and Batty live with their father in the fictional town of Arundel in Western Massachusetts. When their aunt arrives with a letter from their late mother urging their father to start dating again, the sisters are immediately afraid of the possibility of a wicked stepmother. They decide to secretly set their father up on bad dates so that he won't fall in love again. After this happens a few times, their father starts pretending to go on dates with a mysterious woman to appease his sister, who has made him promise to see at least four different women before he gives up for good. After this is revealed, the sisters realize that their father has feelings for their next-door neighbor, Iantha, who the whole family likes. They then successfully enact one last secret plan to set their father up with her, and they end up getting married.