Jacksonville Public Library

The house swap, Yvette Clark

eng

no index present

Ages 8-12, HarperCollinsPublishers

fiction

The house swap

1370355812

Yvette Clark

"Allie and Sage would not be friends even if they didn't live five thousand miles apart. Allie is a middle child living in a sleepy English village who dreams of being a spy. Sage, an only child from Los Angeles, is more interested in her crystal collection than cracking codes. Though they have nothing in common, their worlds collide when their parents agree to a house swap -- Allie's family will spend their vacation at Sage's house in sunny California while Sage and her mom will stay at Allie's cottage in England. When the girls meet, it doesn't take super-spy skills to see that Sage is worried about the tension between her parents. Determined to fix things, the girls hatch a complicated plan. But while Allie is pulling the strings in Sage's family, she's struggling to feel heard in her own, with her obnoxious older brother and annoying younger sister taking up all her parents' time. It just may take a trip halfway around the world for Sage and Allie to find their place at home." --Book jacket

pre adolescent