Stranger With My Face

Stranger With My Face

By: Lois Duncan

*****

Stranger With My Face is about 16 year-old Laurie Stratton and her long lost twin sister Lia Abbot. It all starts when she gets a stomach flu right before a big christmas party that she was supposed to attend. Her boyfriend still makes and claims he saw her on the beach. He gets really suspicious and suddenly thinks she's cheating on him and then dumps him. Laurie then finds out about Lia. Her parents told her that she was adopted and it suddenly made sense to Laurie that Lia was somehow doing this. Her friend Ellen thinks it's from astral projection. She says that native amerícans can do it. Lia starts getting jealous of Ellen and then tricks Ellen into following her because Ellen thinks she's Laurie. Lia pushes Ellen down a flight of slippery stairs and Ellen falls into a colma. Everyone blames a boy named Jeff who was with Ellen that night. Jeff and Laurie become close friends and then Lia becomes jealous of Jeff. Lia doesn't want anyone near Laurie. Lia tricks Jeff with astral projection. Astral projection is when your body stays where it is but your spirit goes somewhere else. Lia shows up on some slippery rocks infront of Lauries house. Jeff falls into a whole and breaks his leg. When Jeff never shows up to the dinner Laurie starts getting worried. When she looks over her balcony she sees some books Jeff was supposed to bring over on a rock. Laurie runs down to get a look. She then falls in too and her parents get worried so they look after her. When they find them Laurie swears she's going to learn astral projection and find her sister. When Laurie finally learns how she goes out searching for Lia. She finds Lia in a mental hospital. When she walks in Lia isn't breathing which means she's out doing astral projection. When Laurie returns home she can't get back into her own body. When someone wakes up in her body she finally realizes Lia has taken her body. Lauries little sister notices how different Lia is and starts investagating. Jeff then meets Lia at the ferry they take to school. He gives her her necklace back. It was made out of turquoise and protected her from all bad and evil things. When he gives it to the person he thought was Laurie she backs away scared. When Laurie's little sister comes and tells Jeff the whole story he realizes that it's Lia in Laurie's body. Jeff throws the necklace at Laurie's body and Lia immediatly hops out of the body. Laurie who was thankfully close by swooped back into her own body. They later find out that since Lia's body wasn't breathing they thought she was dead so they cremated her. Lia lives in the winds now.

My favorite part is when Jeff and Margaret (Laurie's little sister) find out that it's Lia not Laurie and throw the necklace at Laurie's body. This is my favorite part because it's just like Eureka! Also because it makes a happy ending in the book.