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.
Do you struggle with "another side of yourself" that shows up at inopportune times, unpredictably, even against your will?
“Forty-nine . . . sixteen . . . three,” Quinn repeated. I heard the wheel spinning. “How do you remember your combination? I'm terrible remembering numbers.” “The square root of forty-nine is seven, minus the square root of sixteen, ...
“And there's Bryant Park!” I pointed out. “Oooh!” squealed Sydney from her row. “That's where Colin Christopher won season six of Fashion Catwalk!” “I know!” Payton exclaimed. “I totally thought Lizzie had the.
“That was Quinn,” Emma said, opening her backpack and pulling out her school planner. “Quinn?” I asked. “You talked to her like that?” “Like what?” Emma asked, writing something in her planner. “I don't know, like a robot,” I said.
My friend Quinn came down the hall and pushed through the crowd to get near me. “Hi!” I said. “The hallway looks awesome!” I pointed at the posters on the wall. “Do you really think they look good?” Quinn wor- ried.
When eleven-year-old Claire is invited to serve as a junior bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, a commoner, to the Prince of England, she learns that another, social-climbing junior bridesmaid is trying to keep the wedding from ...
Joseph Campbell peers through centuries and shows us that we are all connected by a basic need to hear stories and understand ourselves. As a book, it is wonderful to read; as illumination into the human condition, it is a revelation.
Trading Faces simplifies the understanding of dissociation and addresses it from a spiritual perspective.
"There's a rockin' dance contest at Club Mambo and Fianna has just returned from Brazil with some super-sweet samba moves. Dylan tries to dazzle Fianna with his own scorchin' steps,...
From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious ...