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NEVER MIND! : A TWIN NOVEL
New York : HarperCollins, 2004.
IL 5-8
ISBN 0060543159

(2 booktalks)

Booktalk #1

Edward and Meg are as different as night and day.  Meg is an overachiever.  She wants to be perfect.  Edward is a goof.  He relies on humor to get by.  They are both in the 7th grade and they are twins.  This year, their parents have let them attend different schools so they won't be in each other's way.  Meg is going to a school for gifted and talented and has her heart set on being selected for the High Achievers Club.  But, Edward is determined to foil her efforts.  Just what lengths will he go to to get to Meg?  Will these two ever get along?

Booktalk #2

Edward and Meg are two 12-year-old fraternal twins who don’t seem to have much in common and, in fact, can’t stand each other most of the time.She’s a high achiever who will do almost anything to be popular. He’s a classic low achiever whose annoyance with his sister’s desire to be popular leads him to concoct a wild plot to take her down a peg or two—a plot which spins hysterically out of control.  Black-eyed Susan Award nominee 2005-2006

SUBJECTS:     Twins -- Fiction.
                        Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
                        Humorous stories.

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