Summary from Goodreads:
After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left alone or taken from their families would find the love and the family they deserve. For her, fiction was the tool to realize that world, and Wrecker, the central character in her second novel, is the abandoned child for whom life turns around in most unexpected ways. It's June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging in Vietnam, San Francisco is tripping toward flower power, and Lisa Fay, Wrecker's birth mother, is knocked nearly sideways by life as a single parent in a city she can barely manage to navigate on her own. Three years later, she's in prison, and Wrecker is left to bounce around in the system before he's shipped off to live with distant relatives in the wilds of Humboldt County, California. When he arrives he's scared and angry, exploding at the least thing, and quick to flee. Wrecker is the story of this boy and the motley group of isolated eccentrics who come together to raise him and become a family along the way.
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One of my fav books ever, which is kind of about aging family members, is The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian. I really loved the book and I give it for gifts all of the time!!
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One of my favorite books about family is Talk before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg. While the two main characters are not blood related, they are just as close as they can be. It is a wonderful book.
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I'm going with Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock. An excellent book about a little girl and how she deals with her family life.
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Thanks for the giveaway! I'm a GFC follower.
ReplyDeleteIt's not ABOUT family, but one of my favorite aspects about Harry Potter is Harry finding his own, chosen, family.
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I always liked the Little House on the Prairies books!
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My fav family book is The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
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My favorite book about family is the world according to garp. I am a gfc follower.
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I like The Grapes of Wrath.
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Fav books of all time, The Twilight Saga..Doesn't matter where you come from, you can still be a family!!
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My favorite family series is Little House on the Prairie.
I would love to win this giveaway. I am a new GFC follower of your site. Thank you so much for hosting this giveaway. Ok now for my favorite book of all time: The Edgar Sawtelle Story. I have read this book twice and I will most likely read it again.
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Fave book about family "Keeping Faith" by Jodi Picoult, really any of Jodi's books
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I think my favorite book that (indirectly) deals with family is A Wrinkle in Time.
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My fav family book was the Harbor Series by Nora Roberts. Three boys all in trouble taken in by the same couple, now faced with taking in one for their own to raise together. Each book focuses on one person from the family. Was great.
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I really want to read Wrecker. My favorite book about family, hmmm. I love books about the family of Henry the eighth. So I choose The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Thank You for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteLight a Penny Candle By Maeve Binchy sort of about familys and really good book!!
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My favorite book dealing with family is SUZANNE'S DIARY FOR NICHOLAS.
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I really like the Anne of Green Gables Book. She gains a family of the heart.
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I love Little Women...one of my favorite all time books. I also really liked the book Glass castles.
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This book looks great. I think it's just the type of thing to make me cry for hours, which is something that always makes me fall in love with a book.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite family centric book is Night Road by Kristin Hannah. Amazing. If you havan't read it, I highly recommend it. :)
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a fav is of mice and men
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One favorite is Helen Hooven Santmyer's "And Ladies of the Club" (which took the author 50 years to write & finish when she was 80years old living in a nursing home; later became a NYT Bestseller)detailing over 40 characters and life in a small Ohio town.
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I'd love to win! One of my favorite books about a family is Ann Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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It's gotta be Little Women.
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I love Harry Potter
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I like The Mortal Instruments series, it's about family.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite "family" book is Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr.
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My favorite family kind of book is "Three little words".
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Honestly, I would have to say MARLEY & ME. It's about the family as much as it is about the dog!
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Twilight got me reading again so i have to say The cullens
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ReplyDeleteI have always enjoyed the family stories in The Little House on the Prairie series.
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Favorite book about family...
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love the little house books...and Jodi Piccoult. Her books about family are awesome!
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I love the Harry Potter series. Ice had some really fun times reading with my parents.
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The Other Side of Love by Jacqueline Briskin
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I think my favorite family book is Caddie Woodlawn. I loved that book as a kid and just always wanted my family to be like that.
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The most recent books about family are The Drake Sisters by Christine Feehan.
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Ramona and Beezus :) was my fav as a kid.
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One of my favorite books about
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My favorite book about family would have to be the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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This one is on my Wish List. Please count me in. Thank you!
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My favorite book about family is probably The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The Joad family is unforgettable.
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Most of Jane Austen's books are about family. I love her books.
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ReplyDeleteIt isn't exactly a happy family book, but IMPATIENT WITH DESIRE by Gabrielle Burton show the importance of helping you family to survive in a very difficult situation. It explores the lengths a mother will go to to ensure her children survive and her husband will not die alone.
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My favourite family book of all time is 'The Dog Who Wouldn't Be' by Farley Mowat. It is about a family in the prairies with an unorthodox dog. It is hilarious.
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ReplyDeleteI think my favourite family books are Homecoming, and the rest of the books in that series by Cynthia Voigt. I just think back on those with fondness.
I am reading Secret Daughter right now and am loving it!!
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I have several favorite books about family: Little Women, the Little House on the Prairie Books and the Anne of Green Gables Books and To Kill A Mockingbird.
ReplyDeleteI read them all years ago but I love to reread Little Women and especially, To Kill A Mockingbird periodically.
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my favorite book about family is my sister's keeper.
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My favourite book about family is Little Women (:Thanks so much for the giveaway! I'm a gfc follower
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My favorite family story is Charlotte's Web. It is also my favorite book!
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One of my favorite books about family is Little Women. I'm sure most people are familiar with the story.
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My favorite family story is THE LAST SONG.
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I work with kids so I am currently loving the book too many tamales which is about family!
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I would choose one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books-my mom always read them to me :) edysicecreamlover18@gmail.com GFC follwer-Krystal Larson
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