Books with title The 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 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.

They say there is no substitute for experience, and as far as bad luck goes, Wes Adams has about as much experience as anyone. Orphaned at four, he learns only to live and to survive, until with two friends he stows away on the west bound Orphan Train. More bad luck follows him at every turn, from New York to Texas to Mexico to Colorado, until he meets and marries the only woman he will ever love. Tragedy follows.Marie Anna Dillon is a beautiful young girl being raised on a ranch in Arizona. She doesn't notice she is slightly darker than her parents until it is pointed out to her by a hired hand. Eventually, she finds out the truth: she is adopted, and her only surviving parent has not been heard from since she was an infant.Determined to find her father, she sets out on her own quest, and eventually locates him. She invites him to her wedding, where she will see him for the first time. It will be The Reunion.

With this book, J. Andrews Smith, MSW, makes a unique contribution to the fields of North Carolina historiography, sociology, and social work. Almost 20 years ago, Clyde F. McSwain published a detailed account of his life at the Masonic Orphanage at Oxford, North Carolina. Nearly 10 years later, Richard McKenzie published a penetrating memoir of his life in the Presbyterian Orphanage at Barium Springs, North Carolina. A few other full-length recollections of orphanage life may have been written and published, but there is no other book, I think, similar to this one by Mr. Smith. His is no less than a collection of firsthand accounts of life as lived by a succession of children in the Free Will Baptist Orphanage (or Children’s Home) at Middlesex, North Carolina, over a period of nearly 90 years—from the second decade of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century.

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.

***||ALL THE SALES GO TO "THE YELLOW HOUSE: HOME SCHOOL OF THE ARTS", AN INNOVATIVE AND UNIQUE PROJECT OF HOME LEARNING THROUGH ART.||***Welcome to Zack's world. Meet Zack and his family.Explore vocabulary, ask questions and play games with what you see in the pictures (and with what you think is missing), learn, read, ask your parents to read it for you, get familiar with the vocabulary and grammar, explore the images and the colours, but most of all: Have Fun While You Learn!This is the first book of the collection Have Fun While you Learn. With this book, children can learn the words related to some members of the family and to what they love to do. Amazing and colorful illustrations complete each page, giving children, parents and teachers the necessary tools to share the family vocabulary in a fun and intelligent way.

The US debut of France's #1 bestselling novelist, a thriller about a glamorous girl who goes missing in the South of FranceAn elite prep school frozen in the snowThree friends linked by a tragic secretOne girl taken by the nightThe Côte d'Azur - 25 years agoOne freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell, the most beautiful and glamorous girl in her prep school, runs away with her philosophy teacher, with whom she has been conducting a secret affair. For Vinca, ""love is everything or nothing.""She will never be seen again.The Côte d'Azur - Present dayOnce inseparable, Manon, Thomas and Maxime -- Vinca's best friends -- have not spoken since graduation. They meet again at their reunion. Twenty-five years earlier, under terrible circumstances, the three of them committed a murder and buried the bodyin the gymnasium wall, the same wall that is about to be demolished to make way for an ultramodern new building.What really happened that long-ago winter night? Now nothing stands in the way of the truth coming out.From France's #1 bestselling author, Guillaume Musso, The Reunion is a taut and suspenseful thriller that will keep readers riveted until its haunting final page.

Shannon is excited about spending a week at her friend Rina's house, but she's a little nervous too. Rina seems to be able to do everything better than she can and her home is chaotic compared to Shannon's own. When things fall apart, Rina's grandmother is there to tell them a story from her past, early in the Second World War. The story is about a rift between her and her childhood friend, Mitsu, a rift that could never be healed because Mitsu and her family were taken away from the small town of Paldi and interned with other Japanese Canadians. Rina's grandmother, Jas, never saw Mitsu again. That is, not until Shannon and Rina find a handful of forgotten beads in the bottom of a cardboard box.

Excerpt from The Family Reunion: A Play To the military widows and the English chaplains, To the chilly deck-chair and the strong cold tea The strong cold stewed bad Indian tea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.