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Ian P. Benfold Haywood.
Josh and Jamie have always been the "two Js," but the arrival of Mum's new baby Jennie, their half-sister, upsets Jamie's already precarious adjustment to a family situation in flux. After an encounter with a lion at a wildlife park, he undergoes an alarming personality change. Newbery effectively blurs the line between the supernatural and the psychological in this creepy family drama.