• Age: 8 to 12
• Grade: 3 to 7

Discover the extraordinary lives of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada's Olympian skiing pioneers.

Adam Watson has found the perfect subject for his year-long school project: get to know and write a report on an elderly person in your community, Rhona Wurtele. But he begins to have doubts when he discovers she lives in the “haunted” mansion at the end of his street. Then it turns out Rhona has a twin sister, Rhoda. Oh no! Double the work!

Follow Adam's adventures as he gets to know these amazing sisters while visiting them in their haunted mansion where strange things begin to happen. During each visit he is mysteriously transported into the past and witnesses seemingly miraculous events in the twins' exciting lives...

Alain M. Bergeron is a big hockey fan. He is a prolific author of books for young people. He lives in Victoriaville, Quebec.

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Louis Cornellier of “Le Devoir” is eloquent in his praise: “... crafted by the master hand of Alain M. Bergeron, Les merveilleuses jumelles W. is a unadulterated success!... At once a paean to intergenerational relations, a short sport biography and a tale of a school project with a hint of the fantastic, this surprising story is, in every way, charming.” From online reviewer SophieLit: “I knew nothing about the Wurtele sisters...[through the story] you get to know who they were and see that they must have helped women make room for themselves in the skiing world. The author know how to portion out the information so that the reader is inspired to go looking for more him/herself. Very well done!....A lovely story that both girls and boys will relate to.