Full Summary:

The Camden's thought they were the largest family in Glenoak. Then a family with eighteen kids moves in down the street. What will the Camden's think of them? What will the community think of them? Will the Rhustane kids be accepted? Will the whole Rhustane family be accepted by the community?

All names come are taken from the Meridian Series by Barbara Kesel. If you haven't read her Graphic Novels, they are amazing. I'm still waiting for the last five to show up in a Boarders store so I can buy them.

The New Family:

Ruthie Camden had come home from school and informed her mom & dad that a new family had bought the house down the street and were moving in already. The Camden family went to invite the new family to the neighborhood. When the Camden family got to the family's house, they saw a ton of kids going in and out of the house. The house had just been built that summer and it was four stories high and had about twenty rooms in it. Everyone thought it was a rich family that had built it and would be moving in. they never thought it would be a family of 20, eighteen of them kids.

Reverend Camden spoke up first.

"Which one of you is Hastian Rhustane?" he asked.

"That would be me. How can I help you?" my father asked.

"We're the Camden's. We live down the street. And I'm Reverend here in town. We've come to welcome you to the neighborhood."

"Nice to meet you Reverend. This is my wife Ideria, and our children. Hang on a moment, let me go get the rest of them," my father disappeared into the house and came back out with seventeen children. I had already been outside. "I'll start from the oldest; our kids range from 17 to 5. Okay here goes nothing. Camden's meet Sethun, Vidra, Reesha, Lisela, Jad, Loros, Zouka, Feabie, Sephie, Jorgy, Baria, Avy, Chyia, Elysia, Ingra, Rase, Clairessa & Frisha. That's all of our kids. Can we meet your kids?"

"Sure. Our oldest Matt is away at Medical School with his wife. Our second oldest, Mary, lives in New York with her husband Carlos and their son Charlie. This is Lucy and her husband Kevin and their daughter Savannah. Our son Simon and his wife Rose are at college at the moment. Our daughter Ruthie and the twin, Sam & David."
"And who is these boys?" I asked.

"And which one are you?"

"I'm Zouka."
"Well the blonde haired boy is Peter Petrowski. The tall dark haired boy is Martin and the boy next to Ruthie is her boyfriend, T-Bone."

"Nice to meet you all. Maybe we can have a barbeque one of these days. Right now I can't wait to get to school."

"Well you're going to have to wait two months. Summer just started."

"That's okay. I can still read and write. That's what I like to do. I like to write stories about people. And usually it's because I have a creative mind. I had a job working at a bakery making food and all and was saving up to go travel Africa when I'm older. What do you do for fun?"

"We go see movies, watch TV, listen to music, and hang at each other's houses. That's what we do for fun. We are so getting you out of the house and making you have fun. By the end of the summer, you and your siblings will know how to have some American fun," Peter said.

"We know how to have American fun. Zouka here just likes to make and save money. Don't you Zouka?" Sethun teased. I slammed my fist into his shoulder and he doubled over in pretend pain. I was the only one that could make Sethun pretend to be hurt. He still felt guilty about what had happened to me when I as a baby. I had ended up in the hospital after getting a 105-degree temperature that wouldn't go down. Sethun had been watching me.