Family Reunion Hardcover - 2004
by Caroline B. Cooney
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- Title Family Reunion
- Author Caroline B. Cooney
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reissue
- Condition New
- Pages 195
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Children's Books, New York, New York
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0385731361I2N00
- ISBN 9780385731362 / 0385731361
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.58 x 0.77 in (19.76 x 14.17 x 1.96 cm)
- Ages 10 to 14 years
- Grade levels 5 - 9
- Reading level 840
- Library of Congress subjects Family, Family life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004269965
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
When the invitation to the Preffyn family reunion arrives interrupting a perfectly decent summer vacation, 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott is anything but enthusiastic. It's not that Shelley has anything against her relatives, she just can't stand it when they give her that "what a pity" look. It's not her fault that her real mother walked out on the family or that her father has remarried yet again. With Dad away on business and her older sister visiting their mother in Paris, Shelley must face the "perfect" Preffyns' reunion with only her prankster younger brother and her insecure new stepmother at her side. It's an opportunity to uncover the family's secrets, but Shelley isn't sure whether, when she discovers the truth, she'll laugh or cry.In this funny and poignant novel by Caroline B. Cooney, Shelley learns to appreciate all the members of her unusual family--including herself!--in ways she never anticipated. And she discovers things are often not as perfect as they seem.From the Hardcover edition.
First line
It began when we found out that our new summer house had an old bomb shelter in the backyard, and my brother, Angus, decided to sell time-shares in it.