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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  GeniusJen | Oct 10, 2009 |  Double Identity is a book about a thirteen year old girl who has some shocking secrets. when her parents send her away to herr aunts house she begins to solve these secrets about her and her family. (  ) SierrahHG | Sep 24, 2009 | I guessed the twist in this really early on, but that might be becuase of the reading list I found it on. Haddix is the master of confined people/hidden secret creepiness, and this story had both. (  ) francescadefreitas | Sep 19, 2009 | Haddix crafts a suspenseful tale told from the perspective of Bethany, a 12-year-old only child who is suddenly abandoned by her parents into the care an unfamiliar aunt. Bethany is left confused by her parents’ unexplained absence and discovers that, while she is unfamiliar with her surroundings, her face is not new to those around her. As mysterious details unfold around Bethany, the reader comes to realize that she is living the life of a clone. The inner conflicts she experiences as a result of this knowledge bring interesting questions into the reader’s mind about the consequences of scientific intervention. The story avoids addressing any ethical issues related to cloning; instead it focuses on the small story of one girl’s struggle to believe that she has an identity as an individual and not as just a replacement for a lost daughter. ( ) tlcalderon4 | May 3, 2009 | Kept my attention, but weak ending. (  ) jtrovato | Mar 18, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents begin acting more oddly than usual: Her mother cries constantly, and her father barely lets Bethany out of his sight. Then one morning he hustles the entire family into the car, drives across several state lines -- and leaves Bethany with an aunt she never knew existed. Bethany has no idea what's going on. She's worried that her mom and dad are running from some kind of trouble, but she can't find out because they won't tell her where they are going.
Bethany's only clue is a few words she overheard her father tell her aunt Myrlie: "She doesn't know anything about Elizabeth." But Aunt Myrlie won't tell Bethany who Elizabeth is, and she won't explain why people in her small town react to Bethany as if they've seen a ghost. The mystery intensifies when Bethany gets a package from her father containing four different birth certificates from four states, with four different last names -- and thousands of dollars in cash. And when a strange man shows up asking questions, Bethany realizes she's not the only one who's desperate to unravel the secrets of her past.
In this exhilarating thriller, Margaret Peterson Haddix crafts a taut story so full of twists and turns, readers will be gripped until the startling conclusion.
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For almost thirteen-year-old Bethany, life has suddenly and unexplicably taken a strange turn. For a girl who has never spent a night away from her parents, she's suddenly hustled into the car by her sad-looking father, subjected to listening to her sobbing mother, and unceremoniously dropped off in the middle of the night in a town she's never heard of, at the home of a woman claiming to be her Aunt Myrlie. Her parents are a lot older than her friend's parents, and Bethany is sure that her parent's siblings are all dead. So who is this woman claiming to be her Aunt, and why has she never heard of her before? Why won't her mother stop crying? Why does her dad seem so eager to get away from the house in Sanderfield? And who the heck is Elizabeth, the name she overheard her father and Myrlie discussing?
All these questions and more are only the tip of the iceberg in Margaret Peterson Haddix's newest novel, a wonderful young adult thriller that I thoroughly enjoyed. The twists and turns are unpredictable and unexpected--the conclusion one I never saw coming.
Overall, a great suspenseful read for teens and adults alike! (