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My daughter read a LOT of those, it was an entire series. I think at one time she had like 20 of them.
Well, Despite what the GR record currently says, it was published waaaaayyy before 1990, but Lottie and Lisa is the book the movie The Parent Trap was based on. It's probably old-fashioned and wouldn't have seemed like a new book a decade ago, but thought I'd put it out there.
Ann, I adored the Sweet Valley books when I was young!There's one called April Fool where they seem to switch places.
The Sweet Valley books are blonde twins Jessica and Elizabeth. Jessica is popular and on the cheerleading squad. Elizabeth is quiet one and writes for the school paper.
I'll third the SVH suggestion. (And the first dozen books were pretty good. After that they got cheesy and soap-opera-y.)
rivka, I was reading the descriptors for all the books in the series, as well as the character descriptions... How could I have forgotten The Unicorn Club?! Are you wearing something purple?
Wow...
Twin Switch by Jamie Suzanne, 1999.Summary:
Jessica gets her superperfect, ultrasweet twin sister, Elizabeth, to help her out of a jam, but the old "trading places" trick gets the twins in some interesting situations.
Twin Switch by Francine Pascal.
Could it be Twin Switch by Carol Stanley?I remember one of them was really smart and played the violin and the other one was a runner.
Although the premise was similar to Twin Switch by Pascal, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a SVH book. I purposely stayed away from that series. :)Not Lottie and Lisa either.
But hmmm that Twin Switch by Carol Stanley has the type of cover I am talking about! The plot doesn't sound right, though, because I remember the twins went to school, so it couldn't take place at a grandmother's house over the summer. Also I don't think the parents were divorced and they all lived together.
The Parent Trap?((lol...that's a movie.))
Katelyn, Yes, The Parent Trap has been made as a movie twice, and it was based on the book Lottie and Lisa .
No, I don't think so. Thanks for trying, everyone! So far the only one that has had me doubting my memory is Twin Switch by Carol Stanley, mainly because of the cover... although it's not that I remember it, it just looks familiar because I definitely read some of those Scholastic Apple books.
April Fool! by Francine Pascal was first published in 1989. If you look where it says "other editions" you'll see a picture of a cover.It's actually #28 of the "Sweet Valley Twins" series.
Summary:The Wakefield twins' April Fool's Day joke turns out a bit unexpectedly as Elizabeth must take the blame for things her sister does wrong.
Nope, definitely wasn't a Sweet Valley book. I know I never read any of them.
The Parent Trap was based on a book, but there was also a book version of the movie:
Parent Trap(I actually read this in elementary school several years before I had a chance to catch the movie on TV.) It's a longshot, though, because, Janna doesn't remember the parents being divorced.
Wow. I totally forgot about this series and seeing the cover for Pink Lemonade Charade made me freak out a little.Check out Cynthia Blair's Pratt Twins series, because they've got the cheezy covers and the twins seem to switch in almost every other book.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/...
And if that still isn't the right path, may I suggest getting in touch with this wacky blogger who seems to know EVERYTHING about the 80s/90s cheese genres?
(Everyone here needs to look at this page for the book cover images alone. Courtney Cox in full 80s effect!)
http://cliqueypizza.blogspot.com/
Lol. Craziness, right!? I'm having serious flashbacks.
These are kind of longshots but...
Mallory And The Trouble With TwinsThis was a Baby-Sitters Club book, so it's mostly about Mallory having trouble telling the twins apart.
TwinsThis was the only real "YA" book I found that sort of fit the description, but it's more of a paranormal suspense novel.
The Judge Is Seeing DoubleThis was from a series of horse books called Dutch Mill Farms. This book was about red-haired twins who share a horse that seems to be the only one who can tell them apart. Not sure if any switching is involved...
When I first read your description I immediately thought of that movie "She's the Man" (based on SHakespeare's 12th Night) because the girl plays soccer, but it is a boy/girl set of twins.
Hey everyone, I asked the person at that Cliquey Pizza blog and they found the book!! It's Double Trouble by Michael Pellowski. I remembered the title afterall! I just couldn't find it in a search without the author's name for some reason. But as soon as I saw the cover, I knew that was it.
Double Trouble
Janna, Thanks so much for letting us know.
Sweet! I thought that person seemed all-knowing! Lol
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I bought it at a used bookstore in probably the late 90s. I have a feeling the book was older, though, because I think it had one of those cheesy covers that YA books had in the 80s. It probably wasn't great literature, hehe.
It's just been driving me crazy because I am usually able to figure out book titles by Googling, but this one has given me trouble. In fact, I was thinking the title was Double Trouble, but that doesn't seem to be the case. (I think I must have been mixing it up with Double Trouble Squared by Kathryn Lasky which I've also read.)
And no, it wasn't an Olsen twins book. ;)