The Second Favorite Daughters Club 1: Sister Sabotage
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
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For fans of Sisters and Netflix’s The Baby-sitter’s Club, a contemporary series for the siblings who always come in last.
Santana Barnes is tired of playing second fiddle to her ballet protégé, honor student older sister Victoria. Casey Hammond is sick of her cute-as-a-button, adventurous little sister Sage, who steals all of their dad’s attention.
When the girls meet in their middle school library, they learn they have a lot in common: they both love reading, they hate after-school activities, and most important, they are clearly their parents’ second-favorite children.
So they decide to do something about it. They create the Second Favorite Daughters Club. The members? Just the two of them. The mission? To become their parents' favorite children by undermining their love-hoarding siblings. But is it possible to cheat your way to becoming your parents’ favorite? And is being in the spotlight really what they want after all?
Bestselling author Colleen Oakes’s middle grade debut, SISTER SABOTAGE is a celebration of friendship and family in all its challenging forms, and a reminder that there’s no one way to stand out.
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Santana is tired of feeling like a "leftover" in her family, especially when compared to her older sister Victoria, who "was good at everything: academic decathlon, singing, math, you name it." Meanwhile Casey, her father, and her younger sister have just moved to New Saybrook, Conn., and while most things are new, the feeling of being left out in her family remains. Her father and "half feral" sister are "two peas in a pod," but all Casey wants is to be "normal," a desire reinforced by her mother's comings and goings, which have Casey feeling extra lonely. When the two seventh graders meet at school, they instantly bond over their sense that they're each the second-choice child in their families, forming the Second Favorite Daughter's Club and vowing vengeance against their sisters. Casey's pain at her mother's casual attitude toward parenting is deeply sympathetic, as is Santana's frustration at her parents' seemingly single-minded focus on Victoria. Both characters, who read as white, are fully formed, with unique flaws and personality traits that allow each to shine in this on-the-nose telling of familial tumult and sibling rivalry by Oakes (The Black Coats). Ages 10–up.
