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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her twin sister, Josie. As "The Sisters Sweet," they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious father and managed by their practical mother, who were once theatrical stars in their own rights. Then, in an explosive act, Josie exposes the fraud in a spectacular fashion and runs away to Hollywood. The family retreats to Chicago, where Harriet must figure out how...
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Set before the Civil War, in the first half of the nineteenth century, this novel of Mark Twain's delves into the ironies of racial prejudice. A young would-be lawyer, Wilson, sets out to solve a murder using the (at that time) unproven method of fingerprinting. Thought to be a simpleton or 'puddenhead', he eventually makes his critics look like puddenheads themselves. The main focus of the novel, however, deals with the identities of two young...
3) BZRK
Author
Series
BZRK volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain.
4) The Girls
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
A novel about conjoined twins, who live their lives together in every way, yet nevertheless emerge with beliefs and desires all their own.
Author
Series
BZRK volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
With the BZRK cell in tatters, the Armstrong Twins seize the opportunity to take control of the president's mind. While they carefully seek to rewire the president's brain, knowing a slight mistake could spell disaster, the remaining members of BZRK attempt to pick up the pieces of their broken team and find a way to thwart the Armstrongs' plans.
7) Stuck on you
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Conjoined twins, Bob and Walt, are happy living their lives together and manage just fine, playing hockey, working at the diner, and cruising for babes, until one decides he wants to be an actor and the other has stage fright and panic attacks.
8) False hearts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Two formerly conjoined sisters are ensnared in a murderous plot involving psychoactive drugs, shared dreaming, organized crime, and a sinister cult"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a small town, as high school graduation approaches, two conjoined sisters must weigh the importance of their dreams as individuals against the risk inherent in the surgery that has the potential to separate them forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially...
12) One: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery, which they have never before considered.
13) BZRK apocalypse
Author
Series
BZRK volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
A rebel band of teens faces off against twins Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, who are determined to eliminate humanity's free will, in a war that is fought at the nano level in the human brain.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Owen and Porter Jamison are conjoined twins inhabiting one body with two heads, one torso, and two very different hearts. As they grow to adulthood, their differences become pronounced: Porter is outgoing and charismatic while Owen is cerebral and artistic. When Porter becomes a high school jock hero, complete with cheerleader girlfriend, a greater distinction emerges, as Owen gradually comes to realize that he's gay. Porter's unease with his brother's...
16) The secret twin
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Born a conjoined twin, thirteen-year-old Noah bears the secret guilt of being the only survivor, and now finds himself in the care of a stranger with a secret of her own.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Jess is grieving for her beloved aunt, and when she finds a mysterious flask hidden in a antique bureau that belonged to Aunt Edie on the same day that her conjoined twin brothers are born, she begins to believe that the flask is magic and that their survival depends on it.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The extraordinary lives of Evelyn and Evelyn, a darling but unfortunate pair of conjoined twins who brave extreme circumstances of calamity and adversity, such as the bizarre and bloody night of their birth and subsequent orphaning; their early years on a chicken farm; shocking encounters with depraved gentlemen; life in the circus; the terrible fates of their dearest friends; and concluding with the sisters'' rise to international fame via the internet!--from...
20) The phantom twin
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Publisher Annotation: Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show-until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?