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.
If only they could stop bickering long enough to get the show on the road..
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.
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.
Though they may look alike, the two of them couldn\'t be more different.
Mercedes has a short fuse
Mattie is a planner.
Mercedes lives in a big empty house with her nanny
Mattie\'s new home is packed-to-the-gills, twenty-four/seven chaos.
Mercedes is used to getting what she wants, when she wants
Mattie would rather be invisible and blend into the background.
But her doppelganger, the popular Mercedes Miller, doesn\'t like it one bit.
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.
Mattie Gomez feels directionless after being uprooted from her beloved Minnesota and forced to move in with her new stepfamily in California.
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
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