If you haven’t heard of the girls, you can read a little about them here. How do they date? How do they drive? Can they study different things? How do they answer their emails? The show gave these two girls an opportunity to showcase their extraordinarily ordinary lives in a way that wasn’t exploitative nor glamorized. The show captivated me because it did an excellent job of answering the questions that one can’t help but have about two people who are literally connected to one another. It was a slice-of-life series about conjoined teen girls and the things they could - and could not - do. Between Tiny Houses and Toddlers and Tiaras, there was a little show I couldn’t stop watching: Abby & Brittany. By signing up you agree to our terms of useīack when I had cable television, one of my favorite ways to kill time and unwind was to watch TLC. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox.

In an affecting and realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Jo Knowles captures the complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the face of a family crisis. As it becomes clear through Emma’s ever-stricter food rules and regulations that she’s not really doing better at all, the normal seventh-grade year Noah was hoping for begins to seem pretty unattainable. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she’d been doing better ever since the Thing They Don’t Talk About. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life when his older sister is in crisis. This week’s “3 On A YA Theme” is sponsored by Still A Work In Progress by Jo Knowles.

Gemini by Sonya Mukherjee