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    Trading Places

    By Claudia Mills

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    Todd and Amy Davidson may be twins, but they're complete opposites – Todd is organized and is the family "engineer," while Amy is outgoing and has been dubbed the "poet." So it would seem that for a fifth-grade economics project, Todd would come up with a master invention, and Amy would have a blast with her best friends as partners. To their surprise, Todd can't think of a single idea, and Amy gets stuck working with the class crybaby. Then Todd begins writing poetry . . . But this is nothing compared to the switch their parents have made. Their father has been unemployed for months and their mother has started to work at a crafts store. Now there's never enough food in the house, everybody is always on edge, and when Amy's friends come over after school, they find Mr. Davidson, uncombed and unshaven, in his ratty old bathrobe. Will life ever return to normal?

    With chapters that alternate between Todd's and Amy's points of view, this novel is a realistic and sometimes funny portrayal of a family adapting to changing roles.

    Trading Places is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 21, 2006
    ISBN9781429936880
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    Trading Places
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    Claudia Mills

    Claudia Mills is the acclaimed author of many books for children including the Franklin School Friends children's book series, including Cody Harmon, King of Pets and Simon Ellis, Spelling Bee Champ. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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      Amy and Todd have always been sure of their roles in the family, until things start changing. This book deals with issues in family life, specifically one parent losing a job and the other parent having to take on more work to compensate. Todd has always been the engineer in the family, and his sister Amy has always been the poet. But now that things are changing at home, Todd and Amy find that these roles no longer fit, and they struggle to find who they really are. Parents and teachers can use this book to demonstrate how it is unfair to judge a person by the one trait they display most. Children can evolve and change, and no one can be defined by just one aspect of their personality.