Top 10 teen twin books

Penelope Bush is the author of Alice in Time, Diary of a Lottery Winner's Daughter, and, more recently, Me, Myself, Milly, which explores the dynamic between two identical twin sisters.

One of her top ten teen twin books, as told to the Guardian:

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15-year-old Elissa has been haunted for years by pain and fear; emotions that don't seem to have anything to do with her or her otherwise untroubled life. This futuristic thriller is set in a world where twins don't exist, at least not legally, and when Elissa discovers that she was born a twin she sets out to find her sibling only to discover that her sister, or "spare" as the authorities have labelled her, has been living a very different existence. Can Elissa save her, against all the odds, or is her twin so damaged she is beyond help? Dubbed as The Bourne Identity meets Inception this YA thriller will appeal to older readers and fans of the Hunger Games and will be available in August [June in the US].

Read about another book on the list.

Also see John Mullan's list of ten of the best identical twins in fiction.

--Marshal Zeringue