Two - Sided

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What would you do if a magical yearbook swapped your life with someone else's? Twelve-year-old Ada has enough to deal with — a greenhouse for a house, a bully named Mona Kat who makes school miserable, and a mysterious locked attic her parents refuse to talk about. But when she sneaks upstairs one quiet Sunday morning and opens a glowing, color-changing yearbook, she's hurled into a completely different body, in a completely different world. Suddenly Ada is living the life of Mauve N. Jenson — a girl who loves peanut butter, has a robot-making class, and a nickname "Rabbit." Her only guide is Freya, a sassy, four-eyed, floating snake who claims to have all the answers (and definitely doesn't always have all the answers). What starts as pure chaos quickly becomes the adventure of a lifetime. Ada must navigate a strange magical world, make unexpected friends, face down a power-hungry villain named Augustus, learn to sword-fight (sort of), and discover that bravery isn't something you're born with — it's something you find when you have no other choice. Perfect for fans of middle grade fantasy who love funny, fast-paced stories with heart, Two-Sided is a debut novel by ten-year-old author Eloise Chan — proof that the best adventures can come from the most unlikely places. After all, after you've defeated an evil villain, everything else just seems too easy.

Is Two - Sided appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 10 and up.

A lighthearted middle grade fantasy featuring body-swapping, magical adventure, and sword-fighting against a villain. Age-appropriate peril with no graphic content, strong themes of bravery and self-discovery.

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