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Fiction Book Report: Peg Kehret's Runaway Twin
Fiction Book Report
Peg Kehret
Runaway Twin Thirteen year-old Sunny Skyland is a foster child who has been through many foster homes. Life with Rita, her new foster mother, is perfect, except for Rita's rules of only healthy food. Even so, Sunny loves her life with Rita and doesn't want anything to change. But there is only one problem. Starr, Sunny's long lost twin. Sunny had a picture from when she was a kid, and there is another child, who she finds out is her twin. Sunny is desperate to find her and ends up on a dangerous search for her twin sister. In some ways, the problem is never solved, but in many ways it is. Sunny ends up finding her sister after a long journey, and expects to get a warm and cheerful welcome from her twin.

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