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Identical

  • Ellen Hopkins

4.67

6 ratings

Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place?

Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family—on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin.

For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a mother whose presence on the campaign trail means absence at home. All that Raeanne sees is Daddy playing a game of favorites—and she is losing. If she has to lose, she will do it on her own terms, so she chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex.

Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be kept—from each other or anyone else. Pretty soon it's obvious that neither sister can handle it alone, and one sister must step up to save the other, but the question is—who?

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Secrets
  • Family problems
  • Twins
  • Emotional problems
  • Sisters
  • Novels in verse
  • Sexual abuse victims
  • Sexual abuse
  • Families
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Emotions
  • Secrecy
  • Reading Level-Grade 9
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 10
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • nyt:chapter-books=2008-09-14
  • New York Times bestseller
  • Children's fiction
  • Family life, fiction
  • Emotions, fiction
  • Twins, fiction
  • Sisters, fiction
  • California, fiction
  • Child sexual abuse, fiction
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About the author

  • Ellen Hopkins

    born 26 March 1955

    4.37

    92 ratings · 74 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    McElderry Books

    2010

  • Edition cover

    Margaret K. McElderry, Margaret K. McElderry Books

    August 26, 2008

  • Edition cover

    Simon & Schuster, Limited

    2008

  • Edition cover

    Teri Wood

    2014