The Lady from Philadelphia: The Peterkin Papers
The Lady from Philadelphia: The Peterkin Papers
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Annotation: Confronted by the endless challenges of daily life, the Peterkins rise to every occasion with misguided aplomb: They sit out in the sun for hours and fail to go for a ride because they've forgotten to unhitch the horse; they play the piano from the porch through the parlor window because the movers left the keyboard turned that way; they decide to raise the ceiling to accommodate a too-tall Christmas tree. Only the timely intervention of their great and good friend, the lady from Philadelphia, can be counted on to get the Peterkinds out of their latest scrape.
 
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Catalog Number: #567414
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House
Copyright Date: 2019
Edition Date: 2019 Release Date: 08/27/19
Pages: 302 pages
ISBN: 1-681-37377-7
ISBN 13: 978-1-681-37377-5
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2019943455
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Subject Heading:
Family life. Fiction.
Language: English
Interest Level: 3-6
Lexile: 950L

The Lady from Philadelphia records the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted by the endless challenges of daily life, the Peterkins rise to every occasion with misguided aplomb: They sit out in the sun for hours and fail to go for a ride because they’ve forgotten to unhitch the horse; they play the piano from the porch through the parlor window because the movers left the keyboard turned that way; they decide to raise the ceiling to accommodate a too-tall Christmas tree. Only the timely intervention of their great and good friend, the lady from Philadelphia, can be counted on to get the Peterkins out of their latest scrape.
 
A classic of American children’s literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery, The Lady from Philadelphia restores our astonishment at the ordinary, finding a rich vein of humor and happy surprise in the mere fact of our surviving the trivialities and tribulations of family life.


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