Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
13yo Mattie’s world is turned upside down when her mother remarries and moves them into a home in California, shared with two new stepbrothers. 12yo Mercedes always gets what she wants – so why is this new girl wearing Mercedes face? And why does she have the same last name as the man who is her never-met father? After a rocky start, the two girls find out that they are indeed half-sisters – and their Columbian father is a guest lecturer at a nearby college. Can they track him down and meet him?
Fajardo bends in all kinds of ways to make the girls’ meeting and adventures as unbelievable as possible. I get why Mercedes doesn’t tell anyone about her sister and father; I only kind of understand why Mattie didn’t tell her mother about meeting her half-sister and about her father being in town. Mercedes anger, while understandable, is also off-putting. That the girls are half-sisters instead of separated twins is a nice twist, though their age difference makes it a little odd that they would be in the same grade. The girls are both Columbian and American. An okay story, but I would pass this up for Bhai For Now by Maleeha Siddiqui.
Cindy Mitchell, Library Teacher, MLS
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