Haddix, Maragret Peterson Under Their Skin, 311 pages. Simon & Schuster, 2016. $17.
Content: G.
Eryn and Nick’s mom has announced that she is getting
remarried. While the twelve-year-old
twins are okay with their new stepfather, they are weirded out when their mom
tells them that Michael also has twins, also 12, but Eryn and Nick will never
meet them, because Jackson and Ava spends alternate week sat their mother’s
house, just like Nick and Eryn spend alternate weeks at their father’s
house. This doesn’t set well with the
two and they set out to discover what is so odd about their stepsiblings. What they discover seems like it is out of
some bad science fiction book and they set off a long-anticipated chain of
events.
Shame on me for being initially skeptical when I started
reading this book. Haddix has actually
exceeded my expectations masterfully and created another future-looking novel
which should be mandatory reading by all of these computer scientists who are
trying to create robots that think for themselves. Books like these are why I will never own a
car that drives itself – I’m going for a reasonably low level of technology in
my life!
EL, MS – ESSENTIAL.
Cindy, Library Teacher
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