Second - while I blew vomity goat chunks at math, I excelled at reading and writing. Schaefer was rude and scathingly bitchy (Pajibans would have loved him) but he taught me both the value of reading and how to conjugate properly in French. First - a wonderful, creative, snarky and sarcastic part time school librarian, full time French teacher named Mr.
There are three specific reasons that lead to my childhood love for reading. The one who snuck into the birthday kid’s room, snagged a book and found a quiet little corner to hide in while the rest of the hooligans at the party ran around enjoying all manner of shenanigans.
I was that fat little kid at the birthday party. Recommended.As a child I had a voracious appetite for reading. Dotted with numerous references to aspects of the 1950s, It Takes Two permits today’s readers to visit a much less complicated time. Nonetheless, when circumstances allow the girls to separate, at least physically, Carrie discovers the truth contained in the book’s title. The theme of individuation, which was part of Two Much Alike, reoccurs in It Takes Two, with Carrie continuing to take the lead in separating her identity from that of a resistant Connie. Because this “second family” demands so much of their mother’s time and energy, the girls are required to help out much more than normal. Much to the twins’ dismay, their “ancient” 43-year-old mother is pregnant, and she delivers another set of twins, this time fraternal. The book’s only real continuing storylines involve two changes in the girls’ lives. As in most of Hunter’s other works, this book has a gentle, episodic plot wherein each of the 33 chapters is an almost self-contained happening that contributes something to readers’ knowledge or understanding of the central characters.
Readers of the earlier volume will find numerous moments of recognition however, It Takes Two can stand alone as a separate read. Readers initially met Connie and Carrie Taylor, “mirror twins,” in Two Much Alike, and the present work, set in Detroit between May 1955 and late fall 1956, continues their tale. Bernice Thurman Hunter’s final novel contains many of the fine qualities that for more than two decades, have consistently attracted middle-school readers, but especially girls, to her historically rooted stories.
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