Let It Glow
by Marissa Meyer (Author)
When Aviva Davis and Holly Martin meet at the holiday pageant tryouts for their local senior's center, they think they must be seeing double.
While they both knew they were adopted, they had no idea they had a biological sibling, let alone an identical twin! The similarities are only skin deep, though, because while Aviva has a big personality and even bigger Broadway plans, Holly is more the quiet dreamer type who longs to become a famous author like her grandfather.
One thing the girls do have in common is their curiosity about how the other celebrates the holidays. What better way to discover the magic of the holidays than to experience them firsthand? The girls secretly trade lives, planning to stage a dramatic reveal to their families. Two virtual strangers swapping homes, holidays, and age-old traditions-what could possibly go wrong? Find out in this sweet as a sugarplum and satisfying as a latke middle grade novel by Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles, and Joanne Levy, award-winning author of Sorry for Your Loss and several other books for tweens.
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Publishers Weekly
Aviva Davis knows she was born to sing and dance, so when her bubbe suggests she try out for the Hanukkah number in the holiday pageant at her senior center, Aviva is all in. She's less certain about her Jewish identity--her adoptive father isn't Jewish, and her family doesn't "celebrate anything," though she does persuade them to observe Hanukkah this year. Meanwhile, Holly Martin, also adopted, wishes her mother wasn't too busy for Christmas and that she could take better care of her grandfather, who walks with a cane and is a writer like Holly. The girls meet when Holly's family tours the senior center, and they soon discover that not only do they look identical, they have the same birthday. Curious about how the other spends the holidays, the tweens hatch a cheeky scheme that recalls The Parent Trap, switching places. Via alternating chapters, Holly and Aviva avoid near discovery, miss their families, plan for the pageant, and learn what being sisters feels like in this charming family-focused holiday tale by Levy (Bird Brain) and Meyer (Instant Karma). The Martins, Aviva, and Bubbe are white; Aviva's father is Black. Ages 8-12. Agents: (for Levy) Hilary McMahon, Westwood Creative; (for Meyer) Jill Grinberg, Jill Grinberg Literary. (Oct.)
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Kirkus
A warm bundle of holiday cheer.
School Library Journal
Meyer and Levy bring warmth and depth to the classic separated-at-birth trope with this gentle story.
ALA/Booklist
A lively, engaging narrative.
JUV017000 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | General
Adoption
Holidays
Identical twins
