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The twin / Natasha Preston.

Preston, Natasha, (author.).

Summary:

After sixteen-year-old Ivy's twin sister, Iris, moves in with her and their father, Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her out of her own life--and may be responsible for their mother's death.
"After their parents divorced, 10-year-old twins Ivy and Iris were split up--Ivy lived with Dad, Iris with Mom. Now, after a tragic accident takes their mom's life, the twins are reunited and Iris moves in with Ivy and their dad. Devastated over Mom's death, Iris spends the first few weeks in almost total silence--the only person she will speak to is Ivy. Iris feels her life is over and she doesn't know what to do. Ivy promises her twin that she can share her life now. After all, they're sisters. Twins. It's a promise that Iris takes seriously. And before long, Ivy's friends, her life at school, and her boyfriend, Tyler, fall under Iris's spell. Slowly, Ivy realizes she's being pushed out of her own life. But she's just being paranoid, right? And Mom's accident was...just an accident. Right? It's not like she--or Dad--or Tyler--are in any danger..." -- Amazon.com.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593124963
  • ISBN: 0593124960
  • Physical Description: 375 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Ages 12 up. Delacorte Press.
Grades 7-9. Delacorte Press.
HL580L Lexile
Decoding demand: 94 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.1 12 509256.
Subject: Sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Twins > Juvenile fiction.
Grief > Juvenile fiction.
Mental illness > Juvenile fiction.
High schools > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

Available copies

  • 12 of 14 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Albany Carnegie.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 14 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albany Carnegie Public Library YA FIC PRE (Text) 35615010064651 Young Adult Fic Available -

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After a family tragedy, 16-year-old Ivy Mason hopes to reconnect with her aloof identical twin sister, Iris--but Iris has other plans. When Ivy's parents divorced 10 years ago, Ivy stayed with her father while Iris went to live with their mother. When their mother dies after falling off a bridge while jogging, Iris comes to live with Ivy and their father. Narrator Ivy is reeling (she even goes to therapy), but Iris seems strangely detached, only coming to life when Ivy introduces her to her best friends, Haley and Sophie, and her quarterback boyfriend, Ty. However, Ivy isn't thrilled when Iris wants to change her class schedule to match hers, and it's not long before Iris befriends Ivy's besties and even makes plans with them that don't include Ivy. Iris even joins the swim team where Ivy is a star swimmer. As Iris' strange behavior escalates, Ivy starts to suspect that their mother's death might not have been an accident. Is Iris up to no good, or is Ivy just paranoid? In the end, readers may not care. There are few surprises to be found in a narrative populated by paper-thin characters stuck fast in a derivative plot. Even a jarring final twist can't save this one. Most characters seem to be white, but there is some diversity in secondary characters. A lackluster take on a well-worn trope. (Thriller. 13-18) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.


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