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|title=What's Up With Jody Barton?

|author=Hayley Long

|reviewer=Linda Lawlor

|publisher=Macmillan

|date=May 2012

|summary=Twins Jody and Jolene are very close—but that's all in jeopardy when they both fall for the same guy. And from then on it's touch and go whether their differences or their similarities will win out.

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Jody and Jolene are very alike. They have brown hair and dimples, they're both left-handed and they have feet which makes them look, according to Jody, like long-toed mutants. But in lots of ways they are very, very distinct. In fact, despite the fact that they're twins, they were born on different days and are different ages (because of the leap year thing. Read the book if you don't believe it). And as for their taste in music, school subjects and pretty well everything else . . . poles apart. Useful, though, as they divvy up their homework according to preference!

For more books by Hayley Long with that trademark humour and subtle exploration of troubling issues, try [[Lottie Biggs is (Not) Mad by Hayley Long|Lottie Biggs is (Not) Mad]], [[Lottie Biggs is (Not) Desperate by Hayley Long|Lottie Biggs is (Not) Desperate]] and [[Lottie Biggs is (Not) Tragic by Hayley Long|Lottie Biggs is (Not) Tragic]]. Whatever Lottie is not, she's certainly very funny.

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