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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2004
Gr 5-7 Seventh-grade twins Edward and Meg are the first to proclaim that they are as different as night and day; Edward is a puny free spirit who attends an "alternative" middle school, while Meg is a control freak with low self-esteem. The twins take turns telling the story of how Meg's desire to fit in with the popular girls in her elite school and Edward's inability to resist taking his sister down a peg result in a fabrication of monstrous proportions. Soon everyone at Meg's sc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2004
In alternating chapters, Rachel Vail and Avi take on the personae of fraternal twins with nothing in common except their disdain for each other. "It is just a quirk of fate that we shared a womb way back in fetus-hood," says Meg, an athletic, straight-A seventh grader with low self-esteem who hopes to get picked for the High Achievers Club at school. Her twin brother Edward, a scrawny underachiever with a smar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More