- Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Laurel Leaf; Reprint edition (May 9 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440420288
- ISBN-13: 978-0440420286
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 1.4 x 17.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 100 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,086,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“A realistic, sometimes hilarious picture of modern family life.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Cooney’s gifts for humor and characterization are well blended here.”—Kirkus Reviews
From the Hardcover edition.
“Cooney’s gifts for humor and characterization are well blended here.”—Kirkus Reviews
From the Hardcover edition.
Product Description
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.
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.
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It's a good read, Nov 22 1998
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This review is from: Family Reunion (Mass Market Paperback)
Fifth-grader Olivia Potts feels like nobody special. She can't compare to her smart, poetry-writing sister or her Yale University attending brother. Olivia makes friends with the new girl in town, Anita. When someone steals the license plates off Anita's parents' car, it's just the first of many strange events that Olivia is determined to get to the bottom of. As she solves the mystery, she learns maybe she is smart after all. It's a good story and has a lot of nice lessons about acceptance. Olivia is a very realistic heroine. I'm sorry this is out of print. I read it (more than once) when I was a kid and really enjoyed it.
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