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De l’autre côté du miroir (Orca Currents en français)
Sarah ne porte que du noir et a toujours senti que la fin du monde était proche, tandis que Laurie s’habille en rose et cherche la beauté partout. Un professeur d’arts plastiques sévère oblige Sarah et Laurie à travailler en équipe pour leur projet final. Les filles doivent apprendre à se connaître suffisamment pour que chacune puisse trouver une citation correspondant à la personnalité de sa coéquipière. Sarah n’est pas du tout enchantée d’avoir à passer du temps avec Laurie qui, selon elle, n’est qu’une poupée sans cervelle. Au fur et à mesure qu’elles réalisent leurs projets, Sarah surmonte ses appréhensions et apprend des vérités surprenantes sur Laurie… et sur elle-même.
144 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2007
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March 5, 2025
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February 21, 2017
Loved this fresh approach on coming to terms with differences in the world and being able to find the beauty in everything. I loved following the main character Sable's journey in self-reflection, self-acceptance and understanding of others - there is always much more than meets the eye. Fabulous read - perfect!
September 15, 2020
I got this from my school library. It's an older book but it read well. The flow was easy to follow and I didn't feel like it was dated. I think I'll keep it in the library a little while longer and hopefully students will pick it up to read.
July 28, 2018
Pretty humorous and delightful.
January 9, 2020
very good book
March 23, 2013
The book Mirror Image by K.L. Denman is about two girls Sable and Lacey, that are nothing alike and they got partnered up in an art project. Sable is very dark and is always negative about
things while on the other hand Lacey is very cheerful and tries to stay happy
all the time. For a good grade, they had to get to know each other and go to
each other’s house’s.
This wasn’t that good. It didn’t have too much of an exciting story to me and I couldn’t relate to anything in the book. It was short and easy to understand.
Sable wasn’t social with other kids. She is very critical about everything and everyone. The main people she hates are the popular girls like Lacey. She hates the way they talk and act. Her mom is nice but Sable thinks that she’s weird. She thinks that the end is
near, and is afraid of things that might cause the world to end. “I mean I’m
afraid of the world will end. I’m afraid of aliens, the flu, holes in the
ozone. I’m even afraid of other people most of the time!” Sable’s dad was dead
and it’s the reason she acts so negative.
Lacey is one of the popular girls that are always positive. She doesn’t like Sable because she knows Sable doesn’t like her. They both tried to talk to their art teacher and get new
partners. Lacey’s mom is actually weird. She likes everything to be clean and
neat. The outside of her house is dirty and the building looks like it’s
rundown. Her mom doesn’t want to touch the dirty things and clean it up.
Lacey’s dad was also dead but Lacey looked past it and stayed positive unlike
Sable.
Lacey and Sable went to each other’s houses and were nervous. They both went to Sable’s house first and they didn’t talk a lot. They didn’t connect and learn more about themselves. Then the next day they went to Lacey’s house and they were a little more talkative. Eventually after they went to each other’s houses they started talking. They
learned more about each other and started to become closer to friends.
I am rating this book two stars out of five. The reason I am rating it only two stars is because it isn’t exciting. The conflict at the end wasn’t exciting at all, I wasn’t happy about how it.
things while on the other hand Lacey is very cheerful and tries to stay happy
all the time. For a good grade, they had to get to know each other and go to
each other’s house’s.
This wasn’t that good. It didn’t have too much of an exciting story to me and I couldn’t relate to anything in the book. It was short and easy to understand.
Sable wasn’t social with other kids. She is very critical about everything and everyone. The main people she hates are the popular girls like Lacey. She hates the way they talk and act. Her mom is nice but Sable thinks that she’s weird. She thinks that the end is
near, and is afraid of things that might cause the world to end. “I mean I’m
afraid of the world will end. I’m afraid of aliens, the flu, holes in the
ozone. I’m even afraid of other people most of the time!” Sable’s dad was dead
and it’s the reason she acts so negative.
Lacey is one of the popular girls that are always positive. She doesn’t like Sable because she knows Sable doesn’t like her. They both tried to talk to their art teacher and get new
partners. Lacey’s mom is actually weird. She likes everything to be clean and
neat. The outside of her house is dirty and the building looks like it’s
rundown. Her mom doesn’t want to touch the dirty things and clean it up.
Lacey’s dad was also dead but Lacey looked past it and stayed positive unlike
Sable.
Lacey and Sable went to each other’s houses and were nervous. They both went to Sable’s house first and they didn’t talk a lot. They didn’t connect and learn more about themselves. Then the next day they went to Lacey’s house and they were a little more talkative. Eventually after they went to each other’s houses they started talking. They
learned more about each other and started to become closer to friends.
I am rating this book two stars out of five. The reason I am rating it only two stars is because it isn’t exciting. The conflict at the end wasn’t exciting at all, I wasn’t happy about how it.
November 9, 2012
Reviewed by Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
Thrown together for a special art project, two totally different girls find a way to become friends and learn a little something about life in the process.
Sable and Lacey are from opposite sides of life. Sable wears nothing but black, never seems to smile, and prefers to hang out alone. Lacey always dresses in pink, appears to be way too perky, and hangs with the popular crowd. The two are in Mr. Ripley's art class when he decides to deal with the class attitude problem by partnering students without regard to already developed friendships.
The project is to get to know your partner and match them with a famous quotation to be incorporated into the design of each student's project. Forced into a relationship, the girls soon discover each other's secrets. Their homes and families hold surprising insight into what makes each girl who she is. Through the project they find they each have something to offer the other, and a friendship does indeed blossom.
In MIRROR IMAGE, I was struck by the amount of character development K.L. Denman was able to squeeze into a mere 105 pages. Sable and Lacey were able to speak to me and make me part of their growth experience. MIRROR
IMAGE would work well for reluctant readers and also for reading aloud and class discussion activities.
Thrown together for a special art project, two totally different girls find a way to become friends and learn a little something about life in the process.
Sable and Lacey are from opposite sides of life. Sable wears nothing but black, never seems to smile, and prefers to hang out alone. Lacey always dresses in pink, appears to be way too perky, and hangs with the popular crowd. The two are in Mr. Ripley's art class when he decides to deal with the class attitude problem by partnering students without regard to already developed friendships.
The project is to get to know your partner and match them with a famous quotation to be incorporated into the design of each student's project. Forced into a relationship, the girls soon discover each other's secrets. Their homes and families hold surprising insight into what makes each girl who she is. Through the project they find they each have something to offer the other, and a friendship does indeed blossom.
In MIRROR IMAGE, I was struck by the amount of character development K.L. Denman was able to squeeze into a mere 105 pages. Sable and Lacey were able to speak to me and make me part of their growth experience. MIRROR
IMAGE would work well for reluctant readers and also for reading aloud and class discussion activities.
April 16, 2008
English 425 Submitter’s name: Lynnsey Sutphin
Book Bank Book Bank subject: Reluctant Reader
Reference information:
Title: Mirror Image
Author: K.L. Denman
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers Year: 2007
# of pages: 105 Genre: Young Adult
Reading level Interest level: 9-13
Potential hot lava: Nothing
General response/reaction: I didn’t like this book, and couldn’t get into it at all. I don’t think it should even be classified as Young Adult Literature because no teenager is going to want to read this. It would be suitable for elementary through early middle school students, not teenagers who are dealing with more serious problems. No males would want to read this at all; it is aimed entirely at females. The underlying morals were sweet, but completely unrealistic. It has no hot lava, which I believe is what most teenagers are looking for when choosing a book. It was pretty easy to read though.
Subjects, Themes, and Big Ideas: Stereotypes, social status, personality differences, family problems, identity, mental disorders, and friendship.
Book Bank Book Bank subject: Reluctant Reader
Reference information:
Title: Mirror Image
Author: K.L. Denman
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers Year: 2007
# of pages: 105 Genre: Young Adult
Reading level Interest level: 9-13
Potential hot lava: Nothing
General response/reaction: I didn’t like this book, and couldn’t get into it at all. I don’t think it should even be classified as Young Adult Literature because no teenager is going to want to read this. It would be suitable for elementary through early middle school students, not teenagers who are dealing with more serious problems. No males would want to read this at all; it is aimed entirely at females. The underlying morals were sweet, but completely unrealistic. It has no hot lava, which I believe is what most teenagers are looking for when choosing a book. It was pretty easy to read though.
Subjects, Themes, and Big Ideas: Stereotypes, social status, personality differences, family problems, identity, mental disorders, and friendship.
May 30, 2013
Mirror Image by K.L. Denman, is about when a girl named Sable got assigned an art project in which they were to be paired up with a partner, and in doing so they would have to learn everything they could about the other person. The project they were to complete was to create a frame of your choice, and in the middle add a mirror & behind the mirror would be a quote the other person had used to describe you. Sable gets paired up with a girl she particularly dislikes, will she discover something new when getting to know her; that there might be more that meets the eye?
I picked this book up, because the plot of this book seemed like it could be a really good one, I was hoping for something really deep about how there is more that meets the eye, although I was sort of expecting a half-alec book due to its size.
I finished this book, because it was so short you didn't even realize it was over.
I don't recommend this book to anyone, it doesn't really make you feel anything and it sucked.
I picked this book up, because the plot of this book seemed like it could be a really good one, I was hoping for something really deep about how there is more that meets the eye, although I was sort of expecting a half-alec book due to its size.
I finished this book, because it was so short you didn't even realize it was over.
I don't recommend this book to anyone, it doesn't really make you feel anything and it sucked.
September 12, 2009
The book Mirror Image is a good book by K.L. Denman.Mirror Image is a book about two girls, Lacey and Sable. These two girls are complete opposites. Their class gets in trouble one day and their teacher,Mr.Ripley, decides to assign partners for their art project. Sable and Lacey got paired together. Lacey is a very upbeat girl, and Sable is a girl who worries a lot, and her favorite color is black. To do the project the girls had to go to each others house. The girls got to learn a lot about each other, and by the end of the book they found out that they had a lot in common.
In the book the two girls had to pick quotes for each other. They didn't have to use each others quotes, but Lacey and Sable used the one that each other got for each other. These two girls got to learn so much about each other. It is like in real life how a lot of people become friends because they find out a lot about each other.
In the book the two girls had to pick quotes for each other. They didn't have to use each others quotes, but Lacey and Sable used the one that each other got for each other. These two girls got to learn so much about each other. It is like in real life how a lot of people become friends because they find out a lot about each other.
August 28, 2009
This book is a book about a two girls, in 9 grade, who are totally opposite of each other. Their art teacher gives them an assignment that involves working with a parter. It turns out that the two girls have to work with each other. In the beginning the girls are against working with each other on they're project, but in the end they learn to get past what they look like, their interests, their backgrounds, and turn in a really great project.
Differences. Does it really matter what the person you're working with looks like, what they like, or where they came from? It matters how they are on the inside. One of the girls didn't like the other because of the things she was into. The other didn't like her because she was somewhat jealous of the other girl because she was pretty and popular, but she wasn't.
Differences. Does it really matter what the person you're working with looks like, what they like, or where they came from? It matters how they are on the inside. One of the girls didn't like the other because of the things she was into. The other didn't like her because she was somewhat jealous of the other girl because she was pretty and popular, but she wasn't.
July 22, 2014
This was a surprisingly good book. I've been reading a lot of the Orca Currents series and found many of them to struggle with fitting in enough action and plot in their limited pages. Mirror Image was different in that it never felt rushed or otherwise shorted by the format of the series.
It is a strong tale about two teens learning about first impressions, assumptions and discovering that people are much more than what you see on the surface. The challenge is to realize that the same holds true for ourselves.
It is a strong tale about two teens learning about first impressions, assumptions and discovering that people are much more than what you see on the surface. The challenge is to realize that the same holds true for ourselves.
July 19, 2011
This is written at a second grade readability with a middle school interest level. I've been reading it with the girl I'm tutoring and she is enjoying it, even though I find it very middle school and uninteresting myself (there are "duh"s and "whatever"s and it's about the typical seemingly opposite girls who dislike each other and then get to know one another and become besties).
August 15, 2021
The beginning of the book was slow but as you get more infested you start to Connect more with the characters. This would have been a great book to read when I was younger but I could still Connect with it. The book was a very fast read because of its size!
March 5, 2008
This is state of Logical between two friends.
July 1, 2008
this book is awesome!! i love it. it is like about 2 girls that hate each other but then have 2 do a project together and they become friends. it is better if u actually read the book
November 3, 2008
Written for young high school students, this book does a great job communicating the quest for identity. Also addressed is facing up to our fears. Well written, and an enjoyable, quick read.
June 27, 2009
A pretty girl learns what true beauty means from a girl with a low self esteem when they are put together for an art project.
June 26, 2010
It had a great point of view, and I really can relato this book! I love it, and it's just like my life!
November 13, 2012
Two total opposites are paired together for an assignment and have to get to know each other.
September 25, 2012
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
March 26, 2013
This book is good
July 22, 2013
The theme of the book is barely recognizable. If the theme were more clear, and developed further, it might have been better.
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December 12, 2012its a really goodbook
March 22, 2013
Appearances can be deceiving. A sweet story with some depth. My students enjoyed it.
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May 7, 2018Mirror Image is about two girls who are both in the same art class. The whole class is given a project that will determine if they receive a good grade for the class. The project was introduced by one of the two girls named Lacey. Once the whole class decided on Lacey's project proposal, the teacher gave everyone a partner. He did not put them with their friends however, because Lacey and Sable were actually quite the opposite. They hated each other which was not favorable for the project they would be doing. For the project they had to both get to know each other because they had to come up with a quote for one another that would go onto the back of each other's mirrors which was the art project they were doing. At the end of the book it revealed the quotes that Lacey and Sable came up with for each other. The book also uncovered some secrets about each girl and how the two of them went from hating each other to actually liking one another. Something I liked about this book is that it was an easy read and it did not take long to finish it. One thing that I didn't particularly like was the unrealism of students being expected to go to one another's houses to get to know each other for a school project, especially since they didn't pick their partners and some of them were pretty much strangers. I would suggest this to younger readers because it is not a very difficult book and does not have very high vocabulary.
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