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  <title><![CDATA[Identical]]></title>
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  <default_description>Do twins begin in the womb?
Or in a better place?
Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family- on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that''s where their differences begin.
For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a mother whose presence on the campaign trail means absence at home. All that Raeanne sees is Daddy playing a game of favorites -- and she is losing. If she has to lose, she will do it on her own terms, so she chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex.
Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be kept- from each other or anyone else. Pretty soon it's obvious that neither sister can handle it alone, and one sister must step up to save the other, but the question is- who?</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">8</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Identical</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ellen   Hopkins]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One family - damaged by tragedy.  A father who drinks too much; an absentee, professionally-driven mother.  Twin girls left in the middle. <br/><br/>Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical twins - each with their own deep, dark secret.  One daughter attracts the inappropriate attention of their damaged...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22495301">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical twins, mirror images of each other.  They share a terrible secret.  <br/><br/>Kaeleigh is the good girl--she does well in school and has a lead role in the school musical.  Ian, her sort-of boyfriend, loves her deeply.  Her father loves her too, but not the way a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33409924">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those really hard books to review, because it's difficult to say if I really enjoyed it. It deals with twin sisters, one who is sexually abused by their father for years and the other who watches it from her bed.<br/><br/>It's a story dealing with sexual abuse, mental illness, drug ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19756585">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 11 12:27:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 20 14:59:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished my ARC.  Devotees of Hopkins' earlier books will not be disappointed; if you don't care for her previous volumes, this won't change your mind.  Maternal abandonment, drugs, casual sex, a tragic past, cutting, bulimia, and incest are just the obvious troubles Kaeleigh and Raeanne juggle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40545448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31853568">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, I was a little surprised by this book. I'm used to her books being about drugs or sexual things, but this book was different. At the beginning you're introduced to these two twin sisters, Kaeleigh and Raeanne. You learn that their father sexually abuses Kaeleigh and Raeanne secretly wants ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31853568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been a huge fan of Ellen Hopkins since I read her first book, Crank, which was based on the story of her own daughter's dance with drugs.  I was hooked prior to knowing it was personal, but became a lifelong reader upon that realization and the subsequent story of how it's not always a happy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31766625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49573597">
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading the book <u>Identical</u> was a very different experience for me, in an imaginative sort of way.  It was very disturbing to hear all of the problems each &quot;girl&quot; were going through; with their father, their mother, grandparents, Ian, and schooling.  Everything happening in their lives was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49573597">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Identical is the story of twins - Kaeleigh and Raeanne.  Told in verse - which is the way Hopkins always writes - the twins alternate telling the story of their dysfunctional family from their perspectives.  Kaeleigh wishes her mother, who is on the campaign trail, was at home more.  Maybe then her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41855456">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44862293">
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    <body><![CDATA[    This is one of the best books i've ever read.<br/><br/>     Its about two girls, identical twins, who have very different personalities. Its told from both of their perspectives and written entirely in poems. They lead a hard life after a life altering car accident.  Their mother, now cold and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44862293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46359558">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Identical takes on the issue of sexual abuse by a relative. In this case, Kaeleigh is sexually abused by her father while her twin sister, Raeanne, isn’t. Raeanne never tells on her father, especially since her mother is distant {she’s running for Congress} and cold. And the story, written in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46359558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35073228">
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    <name><![CDATA[quarantinedfire]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ETA: Okay, I feel kind of bad because everyone was kind of really sympathetic (...) in their reviews, while I was...not. Again, I'm not trying to hurt/offend people that live these unfortunate lives, I just think it's unrealistic to always have people being pushed towards drugs and alcohol and all t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35073228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>9-30-08<br/><br/>1) In the book Identical, Kaleigh describes the agony of her mothers abscence to the political campaign in Washington. She yearns for her mother's full attention and pleads with God that he could just turn her mother's focus to her family instead of to politics and her reput...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32515415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45345901">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a compelling read that deals with lots of important teen issues- sexuality, self-esteem and body image, eating disorders,cutting,drug usage,identity and the undeniable influence of child abuse on all of these. I would be careful about recommending this book to anyone under the age of 16- th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45345901">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hopkins has done it again. With every book she pushes the boundaries of YA...the subject matter here is brutal...sexual abuse where the perpetrator is a parent. She shows a family falling apart with no one trying to repair it. Her twin narrators are so strong...her transitions from one voice to anot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23918072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32030876">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Ellen Hopkins' books.  Although some of the content is very edgy, her verse and visual writting are amazing!  This particular story was extra edgy because it's about a disfunctional family where the father is abusing one of his teenage daughters UGH- so be warned as it is pretty graphic and d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32030876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42273768">
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    <name><![CDATA[Leslie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is well-written and cleverly executed in free verse that sometimes forms shapes for emphasis.  I couldn't help feeling manipulated by the way the intense, emotional content was dealt out.  It was almost too much.  Do teens ever really have ALL theses addictions at once?  It's almost as if ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42273768">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say, this book is pretty amazing.<br/><br/>Basically it's about these two twins, Kaeleigh and Raeanne. They are half of the All-American family, with a dad who is a judge and a mom who is running for a position in Congress. But what lies beneath their facade is really dysfunction; and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45967228">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 07 07:57:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 07 08:06:19 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of Hopkins' books I've read, so I wasn't really sure what to expect.  I picked it up because the kids who look for her books don't really read much else, so if I'm going to point them new directions I need to at least know what her books are about.<br/><br/>Overall, I wasn't terr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45643040">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 05 14:48:35 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 05 14:48:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kaeleigh and Raenne Gardella are identical, exactly the same, down to their mole. Twins, yes, but with completely opposite personalities. Raenne is the “tough” girl, sex, drugs, and boyfriends are what her life consists of. Kaeleigh on the other hand is smart, gets good grades, and participates ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76847545">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 31 02:04:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 02:04:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Tricks by Ellen Hopkins I wanted to read more by her and so when the opportunity arose for me to read Identical, I snapped it up and I'm quite glad that I did.<br/><br/>At first I was a little confused about how the story was going but then I got into the swing of what was happening an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76281395">more...</a>]]></body>
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