Double Trouble

DeCLEMENTS, Barthe and Christopher GREIMES

ISBN 10: 0670815675 / ISBN 13: 9780670815678

Published by Viking Kestrel, USA, 1987

About this Item

The salvation of twins Faith and Phillip, separated and in grave danger, may lie in their establishing a mental link through telepathic powers. The dj is lightly worn on the edges, a few pen marks on the page edges, else vg. 8vo, 168pp.

Seller Inventory # 01F179

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Double Trouble
• Publisher: Viking Kestrel, USA
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670815675
• ISBN 13: 9780670815678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's

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Synopsis

Separated twins Faith and Phillip must use their special psychic bonds to escape danger--to help Phillip escape from his foster parents and the bizarre religious sect to which they belong, and Faith from the teacher planning to silence her

Reviews

Grade 7 Up Twins are often understood to have an especially close relationship, here extended into communication via ESP. Fraternal twins Faith and Phillip have been separated after the death of their parents four months earlier. Faith is living with an aunt, an older woman who is not used to children; Phillip has gone into foster care. Both Faith and Phillip gradually grow uneasy about their situations. Phillip's foster family, members of a strict religious sect, discover his involvement in the paranormal, which they characterize as demonic possession. Faith, on her part, is coming to believe that one of her teachers is implicated in theft. Throughout, the twins communicate, both using their special powers and in the letters making up most of the book, sharing their troubles and attempting to deal with them. An interesting and believable depiction of ESP and out-of-body experiences, this is less successful as a problem novel. Almost without exception, the adult characters are unfriendly or hostile, the misery of the twins is unrelieved, the parallel stories are too neatly symmetrical, and the resolution is a little too pat. Some may be offended by the language that occasionally (although realistically) crops up. An additional purchase to meet junior high interest in ESP. Barbara Hutcheson, Greater Victoria Pub . Lib . , Canada
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