Trading Faces (Mix Series)

by Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy, Alison Smith (Illustrator)

Overview

In Trading Faces, identical twin sisters Emma (the smart one) and Payton (the popular one) start seventh grade at a brand-new school and discover they’ve been assigned entirely different schedules—so when they get sick of their respective cliques, they secretly switch places. What ensues is a hilarious yet poignant romp from middle school to the mall as the twins learn what it means to be true to yourself, even when the rest of the world isn’t making it easy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416961680
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	12/22/2009
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	HL460L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 - 13 Years

About the Author

Julia DeVillers is the author of How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller, which was adapted as a Disney Channel Original Movie. She is also the author of the Liberty Porter, First Daughter series and the coauthor of the Trading Faces series, written with her twin sister, Jennifer Roy.

Jennifer Roy is the author of the highly acclaimed Yellow Star, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature and a Sydney Taylor Honor Award. It was a Jewish Book Awards Finalist, an ALA Notable Book, School Library Journal Best Book, and a NYPL Top Book for Reading and Sharing Books for the Teenager. She is also the author of Cordially Uninvited and Mindblind and the coauthor of the Trading Faces series, written with her twin sister, Julia DeVillers. Visit her at JenniferRoy.com.

Editorial Reviews

On the first day of seventh grade, twin sisters Payton and Emma have been assigned entirely different schedules—for the first time ever. Without telling anyone, the twins switch places: Cool Payton goes incognito as quiet Emma, while mathlete Emma impersonates fashionista Payton. No one—from their new teachers to their clueless classmates—realizes they have made a switch. The twins quickly find out that playing a different role in life can be a lot of fun—and that no one is exactly the person the rest of the world thinks they are. What a (somewhat) dangerous thing to do in jest! But all of us have done things as teens that were part of an almost horrible experience with repercussions. There are many experiences that run the gamete of friends, competencies, relationships, and fashion to subject abilities. It seems like a "light" girl story until realizations come to the twins themselves on the possible outcomes of this charade. What makes it readable and a "reach for" book is that the theme is a different one. Reviewer: Naomi Butler

Children's Literature - Naomi Butler