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A review by librariann
Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Marilyn Kaye
4.0
Ages 10+ (no language or romance, some older kids are caught shoplifting, an adult drinks and parties)
When Queen Bee Amanda feels any sympathy for another person, she ends up in their bodies. Usually just for a few minutes, sometimes for a few hours, but it is NOT something that she wants happening. So she copes by being mean. Especially to people like quiet, bland and drab as dishwater, socially invisible Tracey Devon. Then one day she wakes up in Tracey's body and she can't switch back.
Tracey is part of a class of 'special' kids at their middle school, and Amanda's about to learn exactly what special means: she's in class with psychics, telekinetics, mind-readers and kids who can communicate with the dead. Tracey, her host? She can become invisible. Plus she's got to cope with Tracey's parents, who act like she doesn't exist, and septuplet younger sisters.
Jenna "the vampire" can read people's minds. She lives in a housing project with her mom who drinks too much and keeps up her bad girl reputation by dressing goth and keeping people at arm's length. But her gift means that she knows that Tracey's not the same person she used to be. She's determined to find out what happened.
The two girls strike up an unlikely alliance when a student teacher arrives in the gifted class and begins behaving suspiciously.
Middle school mean girls, special powers, body swapping all add up to a fun, younger version of The Summoning series. More than a few unanswered questions linger at the end of the book. I'd definitely read the two titles that follow.
When Queen Bee Amanda feels any sympathy for another person, she ends up in their bodies. Usually just for a few minutes, sometimes for a few hours, but it is NOT something that she wants happening. So she copes by being mean. Especially to people like quiet, bland and drab as dishwater, socially invisible Tracey Devon. Then one day she wakes up in Tracey's body and she can't switch back.
Tracey is part of a class of 'special' kids at their middle school, and Amanda's about to learn exactly what special means: she's in class with psychics, telekinetics, mind-readers and kids who can communicate with the dead. Tracey, her host? She can become invisible. Plus she's got to cope with Tracey's parents, who act like she doesn't exist, and septuplet younger sisters.
Jenna "the vampire" can read people's minds. She lives in a housing project with her mom who drinks too much and keeps up her bad girl reputation by dressing goth and keeping people at arm's length. But her gift means that she knows that Tracey's not the same person she used to be. She's determined to find out what happened.
The two girls strike up an unlikely alliance when a student teacher arrives in the gifted class and begins behaving suspiciously.
Middle school mean girls, special powers, body swapping all add up to a fun, younger version of The Summoning series. More than a few unanswered questions linger at the end of the book. I'd definitely read the two titles that follow.