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Twin Books is a new series of four volumes written by Rien Broere. He is also the author of the Heart-to-Heart Books, a series that has been sold to 13 countries.
The Twin Books show us the difference between children, a difference which is determined by elements they cannot influence, like race, surroundings, looks ... These differences can lead to physical, social, sexual and racial discrimination, caused by the difference itself or by the way other people react to it. The main characters are two children of the same age. They could have been twins, but fate has decided they were born to be different: rich or poor, good or bad looking, white or coloured, boy or girl.

Twin Books (4 volumes)
Genre: fiction
Age range: 8-10
Format 17 x 24,5 cm - hardback 64 pages
Text by Rien Broere
Illustrations (in full colour) by Wibke Brandes & Kris Nauwelaerts
Book design by Peer De Maeyer

• A silly move (Een domme zet)
  In the beginning of the story, we meet Steve and Jeremy. It’s their 9th  birthday. Steve’s mother lives on welfare. They are not exactly well-off.
  But, although there’s not much money, Steve grows up feeling happy and protected. Jeremy’s family is well-off. He’s got everything he wants. Jeremy too grows up happily. Steve and Jeremy have got one thing in common: their talent for chess. During a chess tournament spread over several days, they meet and soon they become friends. The tournament is going well for both of them. The last round, in which they play against one another, will be decisive. But then, just before the game, Jeremy misses his golden watch. He jumps to a conclusion, but he doesn’t tell Steve what he thinks...  
  
• Two drops of water (Twee druppels water)
  Alex en Bart are twin brothers. Eigth years long there was no differerence between their looks. They were like two drops of water. But then, a year ago, everything changed from one moment to another. Alex went through a horrible experience. It changed his whole life. He doesn’t want other people to know about it. But now he and his family moved, so he has to go another school.
  He is shy of going there. Imagine the other children would find out about his secret!…
  
• Hide and seek (Verstoppertje)
  The last couple of years, Samira and Ellen have become close friends. One day, a man from the local authority comes to Samira’s house. He tells her family that they have to leave the country and go back to Marocco. There’s no way around it, he says. It is the law. Ellen and her classmates get very angry. They don’t understand how this can happen. So they decide to agitate for Samira and her family. Their action comes in the news. They have a meeting with mayor. But can he stop the extradition of Samira’s family? Or is there still a place to hide?
  
• The first step (Rare sprongen)
  In this story the leading characters are Starlet and Tim. Tim is staying with his niece Starlet for a week. Tim comes from a traditional family. His father has a job, his mother is a housewife. Tim is a little rascal; tough but kind, so to say.
  Starlet grows up in a totally different environment. They live a bit unorganised and sometimes even chaotic. A family that tries to have a creative way of living, but just as warm and friendly. At the beginning of the week Tim went to ballet class with Starlet. The things he saw and heard there impressed him a lot. All he ever thought about dance before, was swept away all at once. What he saw, came closer to sport or acrobatics than the old-fashioned idea he had about ballet...