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Informationen zum Autor Julia DeVillers is the author of How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller , which was adapted as a Disney Channel Original Movie. She is also the author of the Liberty Porter, First Daughter series and the coauthor of the Trading Faces series, written with her twin sister, Jennifer Roy.Jennifer Roy is the author of the highly acclaimed Yellow Star , which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Excellence in Children's Literature and a Sydney Taylor Honor Award. It was a Jewish Book Awards Finalist, an ALA Notable Book, School Library Journal Best Book, and a NYPL Top Book for Reading and Sharing Books for the Teenager. She is also the author of Cordially Uninvited and Mindblind and the coauthor of the Trading Faces series, written with her twin sister, Julia DeVillers. Visit her at JenniferRoy.com. Klappentext This time Emma and Payton are out to conquer Hollywood! It's bright lights! swimming pools! and movie stars. Of course! there's also bound to be at least a little--maybe a lot--of twin-tastic trouble as well. Double Feature One ON THE MORNING SCHOOL BUS Sunglasses! Did I remember to bring sunglasses? I opened my tote bag and scrounged around looking for them. I felt my brush and mirror. My cotton-candy-flavored lip gloss. A chocolate-chip granola bar for after school. And, phew, my sunglasses. I pulled out the pair of huge, round, white plastic sunglasses from my bag. I was going to need them after school for Drama Club. We were each supposed to bring a prop to fit the scene. My group was going to act out a scene on the beach, so I thought sunglasses would be perfect. Plus they were cute. I slid my sunglasses on and chilled, just looking out the window of the school bus. My sunglasses made it a little more challenging to see, but there really wasn’t much to look at anyway: the usual houses, trees, people waiting for the bus. Definitely not as exciting as the bus I had been on earlier this week. That bus was a double-decker bus. In New York City! Yes! I went to New York City with the Drama Club. We went to see our drama teacher’s friend who was producing an almost-on-Broadway show. It was amazing! We went on the double-decker bus and toured the city. We also went to a giant toy store, stayed in a cool hotel room, and swam in the hotel pool. And if that wasn’t amazing enough . . . We got to go onstage in the off-Broadway show! It was almost like we were Broadway stars!!! Oh, and by we, I mean me and my sister, Emma. My twin sister. Emma and I look pretty much exactly alike. I’m Payton, the twin who: –is one inch taller –has slightly greener eyes –is dressed quite fashionably in her black T-shirt with the word “Broadway” across it in glitter, skinny jeans, and tall boots and is sitting in the back of the bus, where it’s coolest to sit because it’s bumpy. (And farthest away from the bus driver, of course.) Emma has the opposite opinion about where to sit on the bus. Emma always sits in the front seat for everything—buses, classes, and even the front seat of the car. She always wants to be up front and first for everything. I’m the twin who likes to chill in the back. Unless there’s a stage involved. Then I want to be front and center. Yes, I love acting. I love being in Drama Club at school and in school plays. And when my parents let me do two clubs, I could be on camera for VOGS club. VOGS is the school’s video news show. My parents made me stop doing VOGS, though, because I bombed a test and a quiz in English. Sigh. My parents told me I had to ch...
