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The Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown

The Phantom Twin

Paperback – Illustrated, March 3, 2020

Lisa Brown

First Second · Paperback · March 3, 2020

A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow.

YA Paranormal ComicsYA Ghost StoriesYA Historical Comicssupernatural
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Genres
YA Paranormal Comics, YA Historical Comics, YA Ghost Stories
Published
First Second, March 3, 2020

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About this book

A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb.

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Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?

Why It Clicks

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  • Phantom Twin adjacent
  • Graphic-novel browsing, with a playful tilt

Expect

  • YA paranormal-mystery-comics blend
  • Sustained read or quick daily dip-ins

Where it sits

YA Paranormal Comics66%
YA Historical Comics44%
YA Ghost Stories36%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Historical Comics
  • YA Paranormal Comics
  • YA Sibling Stories
Authors
Lisa Brown
Publisher
First Second
Published
March 3, 2020
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
YA Historical Comics