Bibliograph

Ben and the sudden too-big family, Colby Rodowsky

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Ben and the sudden too-big family, Colby Rodowsky

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Ben and the sudden too-big family

Oclc number

70407938

Responsibility statement

Colby Rodowsky

Summary

Until now, ten-year-old Ben has believed that life is made up of "all right" and "not all right" stuff, but when his father remarries and the couple adopts a Chinese baby, he wonders which kind of stuff will prevail. Ben's philosophy of life is that there are two categories of things that happen, the all-right stuff and the not-all-right stuff. Ben has always lived with just his dad, Mitch, which definitely falls into the all-right category. When Mitch meets Casey and they decide to get married, that turns out to be all right, too. Then Mitch and Casey decide to adopt a baby from China, and Ben isn't sure which category the whole baby thing is going to fit into. After the baby comes home (it's all right), Casey and Mitch announce that the four of them -- as a family -- are going on vacation with Casey's family. All twenty-three of them! Ben is sure this will not be all right!

Target audience

pre adolescent

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