Trading Faces

by Julia DeVillers

  A blue long-sleeve shirt

  (summer slave clothes)

  A lighter blue tank

  (from when Emma had gone on a shopping spree for me)

  Jeans

  (summer slave, Tragically Couture label)

  Sneakers

  (mine. I was done wearing Ashlynn’s too-big shoes with their too-high heels.)

  Bracelet with the P on it

  (mine)

  I was so busy admiring my outfit that I didn’t notice someone rounding the corner until she practically ran me down.

  “Whoa!” I said. And looked into the face of Sydney.

  “Oh, it’s just the twins,” Sydney said dismissively.

  Ugh. It’s The Sydney. She was wearing a green-and-yellow Geckos cheerleading uniform and holding pom-poms that were bigger than her head.

  “I can’t believe you twins!” Following Sydney, as always, was her friend Cashmere. “You guys could have injured Sydney, and that would have been a disaster. Sydney is going to cheerleading practice.”

  Sydney was cheerleading? Since when?

  “Didn’t you hear?” Cashmere said, seeing the look on my face. “Sydney’s on cheer squad! Daphne Yee broke her ankle, and Serra Rocco moved to California. Sydney was the second alternate! Everyone knows she should have made it in the first place.”

  “Oh, Cashmere,” Sydney giggled, and faked a modest smile. “Let’s go. Can’t be late for cheerleading practice!”

  Sydney did a “Rah!” move with her arms. I could hear Cashmere’s voice as they sauntered down the hall. “Did you see Twin #2’s outfit? It was sooo cute. I so want those jeans.”

  “Shut it, Cashmere,” Sydney growled, and they walked on down the hall.

  “Ugh, I don’t appreciate being called Twin #2. Cashmere and Sydney obviously know my name is Payton,” I grumbled. Sydney and Cashmere had ignored me completely all day. Well, except for giggling and whispering about me.

  “Of course they do, because they were your FBFs,” Emma said cheerfully.

  “BFFs.” I glared at her. “How come you can win spelling bees but you can’t remember three letters in a row? And speaking of, can you please cover up that hideous shirt.”

  Not that I cared what Sydney thought about Emma’s style anymore. Of course I didn’t.

  Not even a little bit.

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  Copyright © 2009 by Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy

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  Designed by Karin Paprocki

  The text of this book was set in Granjon.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: DeVillers, Julia.

  Trading faces / by Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy ; cover illustrated by Paige Pooler. — 1st Aladdin ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: When seventh-grade twins Payton and Emma switch places, they shake up the social hierarchy at their new middle school.

  ISBN 978-1-4169-7531-1 (hc)

  [1. Twins—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Mistaken identity—Fiction. 4. Cliques (Sociology)—Fiction. 5. Middle schools—Fiction. 6. Schools—Fiction.]

  I. Roy, Jennifer Rozines, 1967– II. Title.

  PZ7.D4974Tr 2009

  [Fic]—dc22

  2008021643

  ISBN 978-1-4169-6168-0 (pbk)

  ISBN 978-1-4391-5334-5 (eBook)

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