Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award NomineeĬopyright 2004–. Cooney, Shelley learns to appreciate all the members of her unusual familyincluding herselfin ways she never anticipated.
Hints of romance but mostly a fun look at another persons family dynamics. 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. Middle grade novel about family- secrets, competition, embarrassment, and gossip. 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. Definately surprising and nothing is what it seems Boys, love, broken families, divorce, annyoing families, Paris, siblings, cousing, rivalries. 3.45 avg rating (270 ratings by Goodreads) Hardcover ISBN 10: 0385731361ISBN 13: 9780385731362 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2004 This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. It’s not her fault that her real mother walked out on the family or that her father has remarried yet again. 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. When the invitation to the Preffyn family reunion arrives interrupting a perfectly decent summer vacation, 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott is anything but enthusiastic.
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