 This was Birdsall's first book published and it inaugurated the Penderwicks series, whose fifth and final volume was published in 2018.Both "A Summer Tale" and its sequel "The Penderwicks on Gardam Street" (Knopf, April 2008) were New York Times Best Sellers.The remaining books in the series are "The Penderwicks at Point Mouette", "The Penderwicks in Spring", and "The Penderwicks at Last".