num_pages: 294
description: A girl takes over her twin sister's identity in this emotionally charged page-turner about the complicated bond between sisters.Ella and Maddy Lawton are identical twins. Ella has spent her high school years living in popular Maddy's shadows but she has never been envious of Maddy. In fact she's chosen the quiet safe confines of her sketchbook over the constant battle for attention that has defined Maddy's world.Whenafter a heated argumentMaddy and Ella get into a tragic accident that leaves her sister dead Ella wakes up in the hospital surrounded by loved ones who believe she is Maddy. Feeling responsible for Maddy's death and everyone's grief Ella makes a split-second decision to pretend to be Maddy. Soon Ella realizes that Maddy's life was full of secrets. Caught in a web of lies Ella is faced with two optionsconfess her deception or live her sister's life.
language: English
title: The Secrets We Keep
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)