Title: Family Reunion
First published: 1989
Description: (Gr. 6-7+ 11-12 yrs+) **When the invitation to the Preffyn family reunion arrives, interrupting a perfectly decent summer vacation, 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott is anything but enthusiastic.**

With her father 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.***--BkCvr

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 Hrdcvr***
Subjects: Family Reunion, Caroline B. Cooney, Children, Children's, Tween, YA, Young Adult, Juvenile, Fiction, Realistic, Literature, Stories, Novel, Paperback, Books, Family, Life, Relationships, Summer, Reunion, Siblings, Parents, Step-parents, Cousins, Coming of age, Puberty, Personal, Change, Growth, Maturing, Maturity, Humor, Secrets, Mystery, Family life, Families, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Family, fiction
Places: Vermont, New York City, Atlantic Ocean, Paris, Chicago, Barrington, Illinois
Time periods: 1989