The Twins Strike Back by Valerie Flournoy

Strong feelings, openly displayed, are one attraction of the pictures of the (black) children too. 302 of the Read-Along Stories for Young Learners: THE TWINS STRIKE BACK by Valerie Flournoy and Diane DeGroat produced originally on the Educreations platf. Their parents don't understand why Natalie is so good at math - and Nicole isn't, or why Nicole won a local reading contest - and Natalie didn't.That's when Natalie and Nicole come up with a plan that will show everyone just how alike they. By prearrangement, May disappears when Bernadine and Nate are in charge they are reduced to begging Ivy to locate her and Ivy leads them from one locale to another, minutes behind May, until all the children wind up at their grandparents (for the twins' birthday celebration) where Bernadine and Nate, chastised, are properly contrite and Ivy and May are undisguisedly exultant. They're also twins and for some reason, everyone thinks that just because they look alike they should, think alike. and Repeat,'' etc.), Ivy and May decide to pretend that they really do know what's in each other's mind. To get back at big sister Bernadine and older cousin Nate (''Well, well, well, if it isn't Pete. Still, given the built-in limitations, this is worth having around. And the way the twins work it out-via an elaborate ruse-might also baffle anyone below, say, the second grade. It's a situation that other youngsters, twins or not, can sympathize with, though one somewhat advanced-Ivy and May are eight-for the picture-book format. Valerie Flournoy Diane De Groat - Tired of being teased about being twins, Ivy and May decide to take action on their eighth birthday. Or, in the spirit of the story, ''Ivy and May Strike Back'': they don't like to be thought of as one, called ''the twins,'' or treated like freaks. Get this from a library The twins strike back.

The Twins Strike Back by Valerie Flournoy