I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Overall, this is a pretty good book that I enjoyed. I'm not a basketball fan but that wasn't a big deal.
This review may contain some spoilers.

Pros
-I liked subtle things in the book like "Kela and Miss Emily made breakfast." Even though Kayla doesn't make a big deal out of it, it gives a slight sense that more stuff is being done with the her sister than her.

-I enjoyed the part where Kayla was bragging about the match against Angela. It came off just right for a 9 year old.

-The way Kayla would change her mind came off a very realistic. One day she wouldn't like Julie because of something she did, the next day she and Julie would be friends.

-As a whole, I think the entire story was a nice read. It had pretty good depth and emotion.

Cons
-A tiny thing but the cover looked low resolution and was blurry.

-I was very forgiving of grammar mistakes and mispellings in this book because it's supposed to be the diary of a 9 year old girl. However, sometimes there were mistakes that didn't feel purposeful.
For example:
"sit of the bench"
"dumb ugly fluffy dog too.!" Here it feels weird that she would put a period and an exclamation point. If she was writing it down and she put a period and realized she should have an exclamation point, it would make more sense that she'd just draw a line over the period. Because of that this feels like it was an accident.
"grounded us for two three days" It turned out they were grounded for two days. Perhaps it was three before and somehow that got left in?
There's another point when their mother is scolding the two girls for fighting and there's a quotation mark left off. I started reading it as Kayla narrating in the journal and then realized it was supposed to be Kela talking.
There's a few of these in the book that I felt should be fixed.

-At one point the father moves to China. When he talks to his daughter he says he's learned to say a lot of things and it pinged me as strange because it felt like he'd only just gotten there. When I browsed back he'd been there for less than two weeks. I suppose he could have just been telling his daughter that to be positive, but on average it takes a few months for someone immersed in another language to say much of anything. Even if he'd been studying for a few months he likely wouldn't be able to communicate effectively yet. It's not a big plot point or anything, it just pinged me as off.

-The last thing I noted is that some things felt forced. In the beginning when Kayla is dumping a lot of information on the reader it seemed like she took notes of things that didn't seem like something a 9 year old would pay attention to.
The other thing I thought felt forced was how much being a twin was mentioned. I understood mentioning it off the bat to establish that they were twins, but in Kayla's own journal she would write "twin sister Kela" instead of just "Kela" or "my sister". She did this a lot in the beginning, more like she was afraid the reader would forget that they're twins.
On the twin thing, I understand why kids would address them as "twin", but I found it odd that adults would call them "twin" instead of by their names; especially when Kayla and Kela weren't even on the same team anymore. They knew which girl they had on their team, they should know her name. I think I understand why the author did this because at the end they were cheering for "Kayla" instead of "twin", but throughout the story I was wondering what was wrong with some of the adults.

This is a short book; it only took me a couple of hours to read, so if it looks interesting to you I'd suggest picking it up. ( )