mistaken identity

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Barbie, the princess & the popstar

star power
2012
Princess Tori, who wants to be a famous singer, meets pop star Keira, who wants to be a princess, and they decide to trade places.

The prince and the pauper

1999
A simplified retelling of the Mark Twain classic in which young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places and each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

A Case for Solomon

Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
2012
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar, the son of an upper-middle-class Louisiana family, went missing in the swamps. After an eight-month search, a boy's body was found, but it was hardly recognizable. A wandering piano tuner who had been shuttling a child throughout the region for months was arrested and charged with kidnapping because it was said that the boy with him was really Bobby Dunbar and the body in the swamps that of another boy. But when a destitute single mother came forward from North Carolina to claim the boy with the pianio tuner that she said was her son, not Bobby Dunbar, the case became a high-pitched battle over custody and identity.

Counterfeit son

2000
When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life.

Slayers

2004
Lina Inverse, a spunky, intelligent young sorceress on the way to Atlas City, finds herself with an unexpected traveling partner--a gorgeous blond thief named Gourry--after she makes off with some of his loot and he mistakes her for a someone who needs protection.

Mistaken identity

two families, one survivor, unwavering hope
2008
Two families, who became part of a national news story when it was discovered that their daughters were misidentified after a tragic car accident, leaving one family grieving while another cared for a comatose child, share how their faith helped them overcome the emotional upheaval of the accident and its aftermath.

Chat room

2006
Linda, too shy to meet people at school, develops an anonymous online persona that gains quite a reputation, but things get out of hand when she begins receiving gifts from a secret admirer.

The prince

a graphic novel adventure
2006
The Critter Kids travel to England to attend a medieval fair being held to celebrate the crowning of a new king, and hear a story from LC about an incident many years earlier when his great-great-great grandfather was accidently mistaken for the real prince. Includes fact boxes.

Twelfth night, or, What you will

2005
Contains Shakespeare's play in which Viola, having disguised herself as a man, falls in love with her employer, Duke Orsino; while Olivia, the object of Orsino's attentions, is attracted to Viola, believing her to be male; and includes detailed notes, plot summaries, and other resources.

The good guy

2007
Tim Carrier, a low-profile stonemason with a mysterious past, is drawn into a life-and-death drama when he is mistaken for a hit man and feels compelled to warn the intended victim and try to save her life.

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