is this the end?

Twice as Nice is the fourth book in the Almost Identical series by Lin Oliver.  I remember I was in love with the series from the first one and they just got better as they went along.  If this is the end of the series, it was a great way to wrap it up, but I will miss twins, Sammie and Charlie very much.

Double Crossed in the third Almost Identical book and I think it is best one ever!  At first I had no idea how I missed the March released of this one, but then I remembered I was in the hospital then.  That would be the only reason I can see behind me missing this third book.  I love this series.  It is so perfect for tweens.  Lin Oliver really has a great thing going here!  This one is told from the POV of Sammie, the Truth Teller twin.  In this one, Sammie's friend, Alicia, has two cousins visiting from El Salvador.  Reaction from the SF2s is about what you would expect and really addresses some serious issues.  This series is perfect!

Loving this new series!

Finally I got a copy of the first book in the Almost Identical series by Lin Oliver. It was great. This first book is told from the POV of Sammie, where as the second book was from her twin, Charlie's POV.  I can't wait for the third.  These books are great!

New Series for Young Teens and Tweens.

Two-Faced is the second book in the Almost Identical series which follows the lives of twins, Sammie and Charlie.  I have the first book on hold at my library, but I didn't feel like I was lost when I read this second book.  The girls are junior highers at a high-brow school in a beach town in California.  Their father is the tennis pro in a gated community and so the family lives there as well, even though they don't have the kinda bucks that the read of the families do.  This book is told from the POV of Charlie who is the more "popular" twin.  Great book, looking forward to reading the first and the third, which is due out soon!  It is a book like this that makes me look even more critically upon books like Blubber and AYTGIMM.  Are there bullies in both books?  Yes.  Are the non-bullying kids perfect?  No.  Are there redeeming qualities in all of the characters?  Yes.  The Blume characters aren't characters so much as caricatures.    But in a book like this, you see a more balanced view of each of the kids.  Like in real life.