The Banana Split Affair by Cynthia Blair
Envious of each other's lives, these twin sisters switch identities!
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Vintage Fiction | Young Adult Fiction
The Banana Split Affair by Cynthia Blair
Description
Susan Pratt is shy, studious, and a plain dresser. Her teenaged twin, Christine, is outgoing, trendy, and popular at school, especially with boys. Each sister believes her twin has the better life, so they decide to secretly switch identities for two weeks. Christine bets they can pull it off, Susan bets they can’t—and the stakes of this bet is a banana split!
My Thoughts
Yep, that’s an ’80s paperback book cover I posted up there. It’s the old edition I have, the one I’m partial to, but don’t worry. This vintage YA novel does have a Kindle edition available these days.
A Blast from My Past
I absolutely ate up this book back when I was a preteen. Loved it enough to remember it into my adulthood and to want to find and read it again. After taking another jaunt with this book decades later, I still love it.
Such Fun Imperfection
Sure, the story is corny, with all the italics and exclamation points you could ever want. Ever! It leans toward the simplistic and stating the obvious at times. And yeah, there’s some super-fast falling in like-love in the story.
But it’s so fun. Rather touching too. Sooz and Chris not only get an eye-opening taste of what it’s really like to walk in each other’s shoes, but each sister learns more about herself in the process.
Continuing the Series?
Back in the day, I didn’t realize that this is the first of more than ten books about the Pratt twins. (Nope, the first copy I found all those years ago didn’t have a #1 printed on the front cover.) So, this is a series my nostalgic self has had the pleasure of continuing in my adulthood.
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