Trading Faces Summary

The book I am reading is called Trading Faces by Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy. This book is about twins named Emma and Payton. Emma is the kind of girl who is studious, smart and never gets a bad grade, on the other hand Payton is a “fashionista” as written in the blurb. The genre of this book is realistic fiction.
The theme in the story is to try something new. You never know what you might like. The girls tried something new by switching places and doing what they wouldn’t usually do. The theme was first shown in the beginning of the book when the author talks about how Payton and Emma don 't have the same schedule and they have to deal with separation for the first time. DeVillers and Roy show this when they write, “Look! We don’t

“Cool Payton goes incognito as quiet Emma, while mathlete Emma impersonates fashionista Payton” The blurb said. This quote shows how different they are. Payton and Emma are two totally different people and if they didn’t look alike you would never know that they were twins.
A character I can relate Payton and Emma to is Stephanie from the book Chicken Soup for the Girl’s Soul. Stephanie got a headgear and she was ashamed of it because she thought that she was the only one who had problems. One day when her mom forced her to go out to the supermarket, she found out that the guy she liked also wore a headgear. She learned that trying out something new can lead to something good.
There were a lot of character changes in this book. To act like Payton, Emma had two things that she would never do if she didn’t trade places with Payton. At gym Emma was talking to Payton’s friend about clothes. “I heard they are coming out with a new sneaker in December, they are organic and great for the environment. Wait. That didn’t sound Paytonish. Plus! I squealed. They are soooo cute! Huh. I could never squeal before”(pp.139). This quote shows that Emma needed to try hard to sound like Payton so nobody would suspect that it wasn’t