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Family Reunion
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...more
ebook, 208 pages
Published
July 1st 2009
by Laurel Leaf
(first published 1989)
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ISBN 0553285734 - An ALA Recommended Book for the Reluctant YA Reader, Family Reunion is surprisingly good. Shelley's family is spending the summer at their summer home in Vermont - bought by her father to provide stability to the family. Stability, as defined by Shelley's Aunt Maggie, her father's sister, is vital, as are backyards. Especially to Shelley's family, because her mother abandoned them to marry Jean-Paul and go live in France. Her family is broken, according to Aunt Maggie, whose fa...more
This is a thoughtful, sometimes poignant book about family relationships, set in the USA. Shelley, who is nearly 15, narrates it; she is the middle child of divorced parents, and is gradually becoming used to her stepmother Annette. However she finds it difficult to forgive her mother for having moved out. Shelley feels that she can never live up to her more glamorous older sister Joanna - in Paris with her mother for the duration of the book - although they get along well, and she is frequently...more
No family is perfect, right? That's not what 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott thinks. She, her younger brother Angus and older sister Joanna are the children of a twice-divorced man. Shelley knows her family is anything but normal, so when her immediate family is invited to her father's hometown of Barrington for a summer reunion, she's less than thrilled with the prospect of facing her perfect cousins, aunt and uncle — the Preffyns.
With a new stepmother in tow, Shelley and Angus travel to Barringto...more
With a new stepmother in tow, Shelley and Angus travel to Barringto...more
This book is utterly hilarious and absolutely applicable to anyone. We all have the odd person in our family, or maybe even our whole family may be a little out of tune. I know I always feel like I'm some alien compared to the rest of my family. Slapstick humor is used correctly and effectively in this story and creates comic relief throughout the somewhat tense story line. It's a book you can't put down until you're done reading it and it will leave you with such a pleasant feeling in your hear...more
Great story that really makes you think about that some families appear "perfect" on the outside, but on the inside they all have problems. Really enjoyed it. Each family member brought something different and intriging.
Feb 18, 2011
10-11 Lexie
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2 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
realistic-fiction
I thought this book was good because it had alot of untied things happening. A little mystery, a dash of humor. You get my point. I reccomend this book to people who enjoy a good laugh when you need one.
Shelley Wollcott has been the glue to keep the family together: her father recently remarried, her brother is audacious (like selling shares to a bomb shelter) and her sister is in Paris living with their mother. Throughout the book she's trying to figure out what it is to be stable and part of a family. It doesn't help that she's constantly comparing things to the Perfects - her cousins who live in Barrington.
Toward the end, she re-evaluates her place in her world and how things fit together....more
Toward the end, she re-evaluates her place in her world and how things fit together....more
Middle grade novel about family- secrets, competition, embarrassment, and gossip. Hints of romance but mostly a fun look at another person's family dynamics.
I think I just read an updated version of a book I read years ago.
I loved this! I laughed out loud. Great book for young teens.
Mar 23, 2010
Mrs. Revier
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Recommends it for:
ems girls
wonderful! girl read. funny! anyone part of a family would LOVe it.
greattt bookk....familyy drama...
Cute, light, summer read.
good.
Family Renunion reveals the ups and downs in a disfucntional family that are often hidden for the sake of "looking good" to the public. I deffinatly liked this book. Especially for how you can see inside the mind of Shelly, the middle child, and how she classifies each of her family members. I would reccomend this book to anyone looking for a rather comical, yet serious book about a family and their problems.
I liked this book but not that much I probably wouldn't want to read it again. However I liked the books by this author.
Shelley is not happy at the thought of attending a family reunion at her perfect cousins' house - but once arrived, she finds cracks in their perfection.
I read this when it first came out, but had to re-read it for PPYA. It's typical Cooney, but still good.
I read this when it first came out, but had to re-read it for PPYA. It's typical Cooney, but still good.
Hilarious book, I laughed so many times while reading this book.
I first read it as a class book with my 6th grade class. I liked it so much that I rented it again last year and I read it again!
I first read it as a class book with my 6th grade class. I liked it so much that I rented it again last year and I read it again!
Poignant and funny. It reminds me of my family... and it makes me thankful I have the one I do.
Interesting, funny, good mini-chick-lit. Will recommend it to many young female readers.
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Caroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. I started writing then and never stopped!"
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