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Identical

Ellen Hopkins

Ages 14–18

Readers rate it 4.0 (64 on Hardcover)

565 pages · Released Aug 26, 2008

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Identical parent’s guide: what’s inside

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Positive role models

Educational value

A note for parents

Identical is Ellen Hopkins' verse novel about twin sisters navigating adolescence, family dysfunction, and serious mental health struggles. The book addresses mature themes including depression, self-harm, sexual coercion, substance use, and identity questions with raw honesty typical of Hopkins' style. While it offers some positive messages about resilience and self-acceptance, the heavy emotional content and dark subject matter make it most appropriate for older teens who can process these themes with support.

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From the publisher

Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family—on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences be... Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family—on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin. For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a mother whose presence on the campaign trail means absence at home. All that Raeanne sees is Daddy playing a game of favorites—and she is losing. If she has to lose, she will do it on her own terms, so she chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex. Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be kept—from each other or anyone else. Pretty soon it's obvious that neither sister can handle it alone, and one sister must step up to save the other, but the question is—who?

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  • Angsty
  • Heartfelt
  • sad
  • Young Adult
  • Fiction
  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Verse novel
  • Poetry
  • Secrets
  • Family problems
  • Twins
  • Emotional problems

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