"A romp of a read!" --Rebecca Balcárcel, Pura Belpré Honor-winning
author of The Other Half of Happy
**When new classmates Mattie and Mercedes meet and realize they have the
same Colombian dad, the two team up in a Parent Trap-inspired
misadventure to meet him for the first time in this sharp and poignant
middle grade novel about the bonds that make a family.
Mattie Gomez feels directionless after being uprooted from her beloved
Minnesota and forced to move in with her new stepfamily in California.
So when she meets a girl at her new middle school who looks exactly like
her, she's not sure what to make of it.
But her doppelganger, the popular Mercedes Miller, doesn't like it one
bit.
Mercedes is used to getting what she wants, when she wants; Mattie would
rather be invisible and blend into the background. Mercedes lives in a
big empty house with her nanny; Mattie's new home is
packed-to-the-gills, twenty-four/seven chaos. Mercedes has a short fuse;
Mattie is a planner. Though they may look alike, the two of them
couldn't be more different.
Soon enough, however, Mattie and Mercedes learn that they have at least
one thing in common: a dad from Colombia that neither of them has ever
met. Determined to meet the father they've never known, these polar
opposites suddenly have to work together to fake sleepovers, evade their
friends, and plot daring escapes from school field trips in an effort to
track down him down.
If only they could stop bickering long enough to get the show on the
road.
