Let’s Get Together
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Publisher Description
"A delightful tale of family lost and found." — School Library Journal (starred review)
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert gives The Parent Trap a fresh, funny, and delightfully unexpected update in this story of two girls—one raised by her single father, the other in the foster care system—who meet by chance…only to discover they’re identical twins.
Kenya Norwood likes things just the way they are. She's lived all her life in Pasadena with her dad and grandmother, she's attended the same school with the same friends since pre-K, and she's always the center of attention. Even as she's about to start middle school, she knows one thing for sure: None of that is going to change.
For Liberty Perry, change is all she's ever known. Her mother disappeared when she was a toddler, and ever since, she's never stayed in one place for long. But things seem different with her new foster mother, Joey. Maybe in this home, in this school, change won't come so quickly.
But then, everything changes—the day Liberty and Kenya meet, and discover they are identical.
Neither of them is ready to find out she has a twin sister (in fact, they're unsure if they even want one), and when the girls learn the truth of how they were separated, it's clear that no one else in their lives was ready for this, either. But the connection they share might be even stronger than the things that kept them apart—and they begin to suspect that teaming up might be the only way to set everything right.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Liberty Perry, who is in foster care, did the math, and her first day of sixth grade is the 10th time she's been the new kid. Though she's used to moving around and adjusting to fit in with ever-changing circumstances, her recent placement, with empathetic Joey in Pasadena, feels different, and she hopes this move will be her last. Meanwhile, Kenya Norwood is looking forward to spending sixth grade at the top of the social hierarchy with her best friends. But the first day of class brings a shock for both Liberty and Kenya, whose disastrous first meeting and uncanny resemblance becomes the talk of the school. After the girls' mutual dislike escalates to a physical confrontation, Kenya's single father reveals a shocking secret: Liberty and Kenya are twins, and their late mother kidnapped Liberty when they were babies. In this nimble, winning reimagining of The Parent Trap, Colbert (The Only Black Girls in Town) examines—via the protagonists' strong characterizations across dual-third-person POVs—the potential social and emotional effects of navigating the foster care system alongside nuanced depictions of substance reliance and children managing complex relationships with parents and caregivers. Most characters are Black. Ages 8–12.
