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My book is Stranger With My Face by Lois Duncan. What I like about this book is that it is very suspenseful and that it always leaves you hanging and you never know what might happen next so you just want to read more. What made this book stand out is that the main topic is astral projection and you normally don’t hear about that a lot. It’s a very out of the ordinary kind of book and that’s what I like a lot about it. In the beginning of the book, Laurie was a girl who never fit in with the popular people in school. But she was a happy, 17-year-old girl, a girl that always why she looked so different from her family. She has darker skin, almond eyes, and chocolate colored hair. Her family had fair skin and light hair. Later, Laurie finds out that she is adopted. Not only that she is adopted, but that she has an identical twin sister named Lia. Her parents did not want to adopt Lia with Laurie because Lia felt alien in their hands. Lia uses a form of traveling called “astral projection” to invade Laurie’s house and ruins her life. On the other hand, Laurie is an intelligent person. Laurie keeps her promises because she promised Jeff she would try astral projecting. Megan, Laurie’s younger, adoptive sister, is a happy-go-lucky girl. Meg, as Laurie calls her, always catches up on things that have been happening. She always knows what’s going on. Laurie’s mom is an artist. Her dad is an aspiring science fiction writer. He always writes his stories with a typewriter. However, Neal, Laurie’s adoptive brother, gets his artistic talents from his mother. He draws things like dragons. Lia is Laurie’s blood sister and also her twin. Lia is evil because she wanted Laurie to learn astral projection so when Laurie is out of her body, Lia could take over it so she could have Laurie’s life. Lastly, I would recommend this book to anyone. It is a fantastic book! I would recommend it because it is suspenseful and you always just want to read more every time you read something new that’s happening. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read suspenseful stories. Whoever likes mysterious books and things like that should read this book.

Marquette


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Stranger With My Face

To begin my book is Stranger With My Face by Lois Duncan. This book was great. It has all the action and the mystery packed into one rectangle! It’s not like other books; it has a little summary in the back that will blow your mind. It will make you want to read more about the book. It has many different phases that you go through in the book and a lot is happening at one time. Also, in this book a girl named Laurie is living on an island about 45 minutes off of the coast. Once she gains confidence in herself, she finds out that she is adopted when she looks through her mom and dad’s personal files. She also finds out that she has a twin sister. Once she found out that she has a twin sister, it was like a curse or something because Lia, who is her twin sister came to the island and Laurie got sick and didn’t go to a party to meet up with her boyfriend. Then the next day she got on the bus and everyone who was at the party gave her a weird look. Her boyfriend and Natalie who was hosting the party confronted her and asked her why she wasn’t at the party. They thought she was lying because Natalie and Gordon (boyfriend) were on the beach and they say they saw her with another guy. But she really wasn’t because while she was home and Lia, her sister was on the beach with a guy. So that’s how the story plays out, lia keeps on making Laurie’s life miserable. Third, There are six main characters. They are Laurie, Lia, Jeff, Helen, Gordon, and Natalie. Laurie is shy and she has a lot of things going on in her life in the book. She just lost a friend to another friend and her twin sister is ruining her life. She is tall, skinny and has dark brown hair. She gets her hair from her Indian heritage. Lia is like Laurie but with a whole other moral. She is not that tall but skinny. He has dark brown hair with freckles across her face. Jeff is a nice outgoing guy. He has a thing for women and he bunt half of his face of in an explosion on his car. He was Helens boyfriend and he was accused of killing her. Helen is very nice and she is always looking out for you. But for some reason, nobody likes her until she starts going out with Jeff. She has short blonde hair and she wears glasses. Gordon is tall and athletic. He is dating Laurie but they don’t have a really good relationship because he still has feelings about Natalie. That’s why I think Gordon and Natalie were on the beach together when she was supposed to be hosting that party that Laurie didn’t go to. Another main character is Natalie. The book didn’t really describe her but I saw her as short and skinny. I thought she was part Indian with brownish blackish hair. From what I read, she seems to be a little shady. I think she’s shady because when Laurie was sick at home, Natalie was on the beach with her boyfriend alone. She just wants them to break up because she knows that Gordon has feelings for her. Lastly, I would advocate this book to everybody that like mysteries. Even if you don’t it is a great book. I gave it a 5 out of 5! Its was awesome, I would read it over and over and over again. It was a great book and I hope you get a chance to read it.

Katelyn

I read the book “Stranger with my face”. The author is Lois Duncan. If I were to rate this book I would bestow it a 10 out of 10. This book was excellent and very suspenseful. After reading this I learned the true meaning of don’t judge a book by its cover. I would unquestionably read this again. The book is being written by the same person that is the main character (Laurie).

The place some important things happen are at the cliff house. The cliff house belongs to Laurie and her family. This is where Laurie discovered her twin sister Lia. Lia may look identical to Laurie but really they are nothing alike, one is evil and the other is a kind-hearted human being, the one belongs in a mental institution and the other belongs to have friends and enjoy life. This is a book that you really can’t connect to unless you are adopted or have a twin sister. Her family is very supportive for the most part until she tries to find her sister’s past and tells everyone what she really assumes Lia is. Over all, this book is very good.

Some main important characters are Jeff, Laurie, and Lia. Jeff is Laurie’s most trustworthy friend that had an accident that ended up burning one side of his face. All though this horrific event happened he did not let it ruin his life. There could have been worse things that happened and he knows that. Laurie is the one this whole story is about. She finds out after 17 years of her life that she is adopted. Which brings in her twin Lia another main character. Lia is not virtuous she hurts people to get what she wants. The only Character I do not like is Lia because she is Unforgivable for hurting all the people she has hurt. My most favorite Character is Jeff. I love how Jeff is so confident around Laurie and was true to her when he told her that he loved her.

I would for sure recommend this book for anyone except people that would get scared easily. If you are already afraid of ghosts and don’t like the dark I wouldn’t recommend this book for you. If you’re a younger age and your not into scary/Mystery then don’t read this either. Overall this is a fascinating book and will keep your interest from start to finish.

Haley

I just finished stranger with my face by Lois Duncan. I enjoyed this book very much. It was very suspenseful. Also unusually it was writer as a memoir.

In this book Laurie has found she has a twin sister, and that she was adopted. Then her twin sister Lia tries to take over her life. Laurie’s friend Helen tried to tell her that Lia is demonic. Helen was right. Lia put Helen in the hospital, and tricked Jeff out on to rocks, there he broke leg. Then Laurie went out to save him and slipped. Laurie projected herself to save them. I enjoyed this book because it was suspenseful. Also it was not a normal book. The only thing I did not like is how many unanswered question it left you with. In addition some of the characters are Laurie, Lia, Jeff, and Meg. Let’s start with Laurie, she is a nice, sluggish and determined. When I envision of her I see a tall girl with light brown skin and eyes. Also she has shoulder length, dark brown hair, and side bangs. She has really charming clothing. Next is Lia she looks a lot like Laurie however she has disordered clothing. She is evil, impolite, and well sinful. Next is Jeff, his face is half burned, he is tall, and has messy dark hair. He seems very depressed and “smart”. Meg is Laurie younger sister. She has light skin, dazzling indigo eyes, and long blond hair. She seam sweat and aware or her surroundings. Finally I would recommend this book to almost anybody. Because of the suspense, and the intriguing plot that sucks you in. If I had to recommend this to a particular person I would recommend to anyone who love reading a good book. I really enjoyed this book.

Austin Stranger with my Face

I have read the book stranger with my face by Lois Duncan. I did not appreciate this book and would be the second most horrible book I ever read. It stunk because it was to boring most of the time. They didn’t have much action in it. All in all there wasn’t anything special about the writing, style, or format. It was just like any other format. The plot is Laurie discover she has a twin sister Lia. Lia is trying to take over Laurie’s life. Lia is attempting to make all her friends go away. She put Helen in the emergence room. The plot is very boring because they talk too much. I have connections with this book because I went to a beach before. This book reminds me they both have no friends and are both uneventful. Laurie is 14 years old and lives on a manmade island. She goes to school on a fairy to the mainland. My sister is 14 years old just like Laurie. Laurie has two siblings named Neal, and Mary. Neal is 11 years old and so am I. In addition best friend named Neal. To compare to Laurie my sister has brown hair. I wouldn’t recommend this book to any one because it is so boring. However if you like books with a lot of talking in it this book would be for you. In the same way there is too much talking and too little action. This book is very boring at the same time uninteresting.

Austin

Ben

I have just finished reading strangers with my face, which was written by Lois Duncan. I think this book was ok because some parts were good but a lot of the parts were just confusing. The thing that made it stand out was the summary in the back of the book. Also the title Stranger with my face it sounds kind of scary. The main character lives in a house on a cliff, which is on an island. A girl named Laurie keeps getting accused of things that she did not do. A girl that looks exactly like her keeps appearing in her room, and many other places. Laurie finds out that the girl is her unknown twin Lia, which were separated by foster parents. Lia has the ability to project out of her body. Lia taught Laurie how to project to but she had problems at first. Laurie’s best friend Helen was taken to the hospital cause of a head injury. She had to transfer to a new hospital in California Laurie projected to Helen that night. Jeff was supposed to come over for dinner on Christmas Eve but he did not come. Laurie fell of some slippery rocks and found Jeff he fell to but he broke an arm. Laurie projected to Lias last foster parents they lived in New Mexico. You will have to read the rest to find out what happens. I thought that the plot of this book was good because it kept you from stop reading the book. Once one of my friends had to go to the hospital for a concussion. I once was running and fell of a bunch of very slippery rocks. This book does not relate to others because in other book there isn’t a girl that can project out of her body. Laurie is a girl that was adopted by the Stratton’s. She has a twin sister which were separated by they were adopted by different families. Lia is Laurie’s twin she is weird she has a power to project. Jeff is one of Laurie’s friends before that liter fluid exploded and screwed up half of his face. So he only has half of a face he is also a very nice boy and he was kind of a boy friend to Helen. Helen is also Laurie’s best friend she moved from the middle of the country so she is a new kid. Later he slipped and hit her head on a bench so she had to go to the hospital. Gordon use to be Laurie’s boy friend but then they broke up because he said he saw Laurie with an other guy. Natalie is on of the rich girls who was only Laurie’s friend because she was going out with Gordon she also said she saw Laurie with a other guy. I really did not like Natalie because she was an only friend with Laurie cause she was going out with Gordon. In this book nobody was like me have different personality than everybody else. Lia was like a ghost in this one scary book, there was a man who was dead but at night his spirit would rise and haunt the towns people. That sounds similar to how Lia acts they are both vicious and deadly Lia haunts Laurie and the ghost haunts the towns people. I would highly recommend this book to people who like to get scared. But if you don’t like scary book then this book would be dull for you. Some parts in this book are very boring but then some are exciting. Like when Laurie and Jeff were stuck in the rock formation. But when two people are talking is very boring, so it matters if are the kind of person that can read even when it gets boring.

by Limarie

The book I finished reading was stranger with my face by Lois Dunkin. I did enjoy reading this book. This book standed out by the front cover there are twins in the front of the book.

In this book not the ending there is this girl named Laurie and she finds out that she has a twin sister that she did not know of. What I liked about this was because it was nice to know that Laurie has a twin sister. Well I don’t have a twin sister but I do have 2 sisters. But I think 1 of my sister’s looks like me when I was little. No I haven’t read a book with a twin in it. But I have seen a movie with twins in it. It is called parent trap. These twins find each other at camp and find out that they have the same parents but they are divorced. Laurie is a character in the book and she doesn’t know about her sister lia. Lia is sister of Laurie. Helen is Laurie’s friend. Gordon use to be Laurie’s boyfriend. What I liked about these characters is that there is a lot of drama and drama in books are fun and funny. Yes I do have a connection in my family sometimes there is a lot of drama. Like for example I my cousin and myself sometimes argue for stupid reasons. And other text I have read like the book I am reading now has drama in it. Like there are two characters that argue all the time. It relates because Laurie and her sister lia argue in the story. I would recommend people to read stranger with my face because it’s a good book there is drama involved and I think drama in books are fun and funny to read. I would recommend please read this book

Sincerely, Limarie Vega

Taylor Spoon Stranger With My Face When you step into a character's shoes, it’s like stepping into a different dimension. Stranger With My Face, by Louis Duncan, brought me into that different dimension. Most definitely, I would rate this book a 9, recommending it to all young adults and adults alike. Stranger With My Face deserves this rating because the writing was incredibly clear and descriptive. It made me long to read more. This incredible story can be summarized in one sentence, “How can she (Laurie) be in two places at once?” Laurie, the main character is struggling with trying to get her family to believe her. Unfortunately, nobody does. During the exposition, Laurie is being “haunted” by someone that looks exactly like her. Consequently, this “ghost” is being mistaken for Laurie, getting her in a lot of trouble. Strangely, I was able to predict the rising action. The person haunting Laurie is found to be her twin sister. Suddenly, Laurie is given the truth; her family, the Stratton’s, adopted her. Laurie’s twin sister Lia, was using a method called astral projection to visit. Curiously, Laurie decides she wants to try astral projection as well, and she’s able to do it. Then, Laurie’s world is turned upside down. Slowly but surely, Lia starts to take over Laurie’s life. One night, when Laurie projected, Lia projected to, and stole Laurie’s body. Laurie was trapped, as a spirit with nowhere to go. Lia has a necklace, one that she hates. During the seat gripping falling action, Laurie throws the necklace at Lia, pulling her from her body and putting Laurie in her rightful place. During the resolution, Laurie feels more a part of the family then she did before.

Furthermore, the main characters Laurie and Lia were complete opposites. My favorite of the two would definitely be Laurie. She is very nice, and honest with everyone. Even when she was going through a hard time, her personality stayed the same. Laurie has a high amount of courage. Not once during the story did she back down from Lia. Differently, Lia is my least favorite. She is a very strong girl, but she is also cruel. Lia is devious and deliberately causes pain and anguish. She is very selfish and never honest. Although, each character helped make the story better. The setting of this story seems to fit perfectly. Laurie and her family live on the northern tip of Brighton Island. Their house is on the top of a cliff. This characteristic gave it the name “Cliff House.” The island is always full of fog. But the sky in the summer is “brilliant blue” and it changes colors often. In my opinion, the author did a outstanding job describing the setting. I could really visualize the wet rocks, covered in moss and seaweed at the edge of the cliff. Also, when looking from their house, the inlet village stretched out “across the sky.” The setting helped make the story. Stranger With My Face has an important theme, which is: When life seems to be perfect, the unexpected can always happen. This theme is true because Laurie had the perfect life. Her family was healthy and well, she was girlfriend to on of the most popular guys at school, and belonged to a popular clique. When Lia found Laurie, everything started to go wrong. Her family thought that Lia was she; Laurie’s boyfriend thought that she was with another guy, and her clique ignored her. As a result, all of this turned Laurie’s world upside-down. In the final analysis, I would recommend Stranger With My Face by Lois Duncan. I feel this way because the way that the story was described really helped me visualize it. I enjoyed it and I persuade all young adults to read it as well. By reading this book, you create a close bond with the characters and their stories. The theme of the story is a good life lesson for anybody.

__Stranger With My Face__ Niky Blouse You know how you have a suspicion that someone is watching your every move? In __Stranger With My Face__ by Lois Duncan made that feeling true and very alarming. Undoubtedly, I would give it a reassuring rating of 8. This book is filled with dramatic twists and turns as the truth is revealed to the main character. However, I would advise this book to teens and adults of all ages to undergo the thrill in the book. During the exposition, Laurie Stratton is a normal girl living on Brighton Island, with a semi popular life. Meanwhile, Laurie’s boyfriend Gordon and friend Natalie spots her on the beach, when she is supposed to be home sick. But that is the problem. She //was// at home, battling a case of the stomach flu. The rising action begins when her ‘clone’ was seen more often than needed. Laurie is just blamed for everything and is no longer trusted by anybody but Helen. Helen is a new student at school, and she came from Indian type state. Gordon goes muddled over the whole thing and Laurie breaks up with him. However, the climax begins as Laurie is learning about a girl named Lia, and she finds that they are sisters. Laurie was adopted. When her parents tell her all the information they can, Laurie is enraged that they never told her. The falling action begins when Laurie learns about everything; her sister was a foster child, they were both part Indian, Lia was sick, and she learned about Astrial Projection. Lia was using the form of projection to get out of her body and go to Laurie. Helen got into an appalling accident, which Laurie found that Lia was the intelligence behind it later. Helen and her family moved away. Then when Jeff and Laurie became friends, Jeff found out about Lia too, and wanted to help. When he goes to deliver her some books, he falls down into a cave by the sea. Laurie came to the rescue when she fell in too. Laurie then does projection, and finds Lia is //sick//, mentally sick. Laurie is in a psycho ward because she killed her foster sister Katherine, suffocated a baby, and killed another little boy out of jealousy. When Laurie goes home, Lia is in her body, controlling her life. In conclusion, resolution begins when Lia is completely dead, body and projection, and it is now never a nuisance to Laurie anymore. Wow, that is really something terrifying to worry about. Furthermore, the main characters were mostly Laurie and Lia the sisters that were unalike in personalities. My favorite one of the two sisters was probably Laurie Stratton for her half decently moral moods (most of the time), during the time that Lia is ‘disturbing the peace’ in the book. Laurie is a teenage girl with brown hair and pale skin. She was not afraid of Lia ever in the book, especially when //I// got a little petrified. She has a kind personality and treats others respectfully, until they make her really infuriated, Resembling, when Gordon goes crazy about seeing Lia on the beach. I did not like Lia at all because of her appalling personality and jealousy. Lia was sent to a mental institute after she murdered her foster sister Katherine. She also was sent there because in her other foster homes she suffocated a baby and did something terrible to a little boy. Lia did this all because she never had a perfect life with a family she could settle in with, and truly call family. Lia looks almost identically like Laurie with the facial features except she is a little different in skin color, a little more fair. In the same way, Lia still has Laurie Stratton’s eyes and everything that made them look like twins. In addition, setting mostly took place at Brighton Island where Laurie lived with her adoptive family. It is located somewhere in New Hampshire, so it gets really bitter and does snow around Christmastime. It is described by Lois Duncan to be a murky, cold island surrounded by an icy sea that is only warm on hot summer days. Similarly, there are lots of trees on the island and there are many little neighborhoods in petite sections of the island, except the Cliff House, which was on a cliff so if you look out a window you see the sea. Moreover, the people that live here must travel by a scheduled ferryboat that does not go during the night. You know this because when Helen got hurt Laurie could not go visit her until the boat went in the morning. I personally would not want to live here due to the lasting iciness that curtains the entire state almost every day. And if there was an emergency, you could not get to land until the morning when the ferry picks up the kids for school. I believe the theme of the story is that the totally unexpected can occur to anybody at anytime. I believe this because Laurie always held the concept that she was one hundred percent related to the people she lived with, but just different from them. To exemplify, but then she found out that she was adopted, and had a sister. Then to also support my theme, when Laurie finds that her sister Lia is deranged and learns about what she had done to some of her foster family, she knows to stay away. But then when she returns to her body, Lia has already gone into Laurie’s body and begun her life as Laurie. But then all ends acceptably and Lia dies. To conclude, I would recommend __Stranger With My Face__ by Lois Duncan to other people. I read this book and I wanted to read more to find all of the twists and turns and I wanted to know the resolution of the thrill seeker. The theme is mind-blowing and basically consumes our worst nightmares to be possibly true. Laurie’s life is a model of the things that can screw up everything in a little time and affect them forever.

The book that I read was __Stranger With My Face.__ This book is by Lois Duncan. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes mysteries. Or someone that likes books that are a little bit disturbing in a way. For example, when Lia killed that little infant was when I thought that it was a little disturbing. I would give this book a 9. I gave it a 9, because it was a really superior book but in some of the spots, I thought that it got a little boring.

The exposition would have to be when she felt that she was being pursued because that is how that whole story started. The rising action would be when Gordon had that party and thought that he saw her on the beach. This made me doubt if he didn’t trust her. The climax of the story in my point of view would be when Laurie met Lia in her room late at night. I think this because lia is a big part of the book. She is the one that causes all of the problems. The falling action would have to be when Lia got mentally sick and had to go to the mental institute. I think that was a good place for her to go so that she doesn’t hurt anyone else. The resolution of the story was when her dad came into her room and told her that Lia died. My reflection of this would be that this was miserable moment for her because she knew that lia needed help but she didn’t want her to get injured.

The main characters of the story were Lia, Laurie, Megan, Neal, Jeff, and her mom and dad. My favorite character was Jeff. He was my favorite because even though he had that accident and now his face is all messed up he doesn’t worry. He was a nice person to everyone. For example, when Laurie had that clash with Gordon she was talking to Jeff and he helped her with the problem. My least favorite character was Lia because she killed a lot of people including a little toddler. She wasn’t a nice person to anyone, and I don’t think that she needed to take over Laurie’s life. Just because she was jealous she decided to kill the people that she didn’t like. When she went to the mental institute I think that made the people that knew her feel a little bit protected. The setting of the story is at Brighton Island. The mood of the setting when they were on the beach was relaxing. I think that the setting fits into the story extremely well because of the way that the author described all of the characters. She made it seem like you were in the story. Because of this it made me more interested in the book. For example, when they were on the beach, it made me feel like I was really on the beach. The way that she described everything, like when she was talking about the sun and how bright it was. Also when she was chatting about the waves and how they sounded. I think that the theme of the story is “no matter what someone does you should always love them”. I think this theme fits the book well because Lia did a lot of things and even though Laurie would get mad, she still loved her. For example, when Laurie found out the Lia killed that little baby she was so mad but she couldn’t stop loving her own sister. Then at the end, when Lia died, I think that Laurie was upset because she knew that Lia needed help but she didn’t want anything to happen to her. In addition, when she died I think that made the people that knew what she was doing, a little bit safer. To wrap it up, this book was a good book. Hence is why I gave it a 9. The people that will read this will want to know more after they get to closing of the book. I hope that the citizens that read this enjoy it. by alexia