The Double-Digit Club

By Marion Dane Bauer

Book Overview

This summer nine-year-old Sarah is dreading the first day of summer vacation. It will be her best friend's birthday, and stuck-up Valerie Miller will ask Paige to join her silly Double-Digit Club, a group that ignores girls who are not ten yet. If Paige says yes, Sarah will have no friends for the whole summer because her birthday isn't until the end of August. Even though Sarah and Paige have promised to be "last, best, and only friends," Sarah is not sure Paige will be able to pass up the chance to be accepted by the most popular girls in school. In this heartfelt novel, a girl discovers the meaning of true and honest friendship and learns to face the future as a wiser and more open person.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823418057
• ISBN13: 9780823418053
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

A Great Tweens Novel!

This is a summer nine-year-old Sarah will never forget! She has to deal with issues of social exclusion involving girls' cliques, conflicts with her best friend, and her own feelings of loss and abandonment. Mix in a little wisdom from an elderly neighbor ('Growing up is always just plain hard work") and Sarah learns a lot about life in general and herself in particular. A great tweens read!

The Double-Digit Club by Marion Dane Bauer

The Double-Digit Club is an excellent book for young girls to read, especially those who are transitioning from fourth to fifth grade. This book follows the journey of best friends Sarah & Paige and what they go through to withhold their friendship. Sarah & Paige friendship is tested when Paige is invited to join the Double Digit Club, a club for girls who are 10 years old. Sarah & Paige vowed never to join the club, but when Paige is asked she agrees to join because she feels Sarah is controlling her life. Sarah is devastated because Paige was, "her last, her best, and her only friend." Sarah spends the rest of the summer hiding out in her room reading books, until her mom encourages her to go and visit their blind neighbor Mrs.B. Sarah soon enjoys spending time with Mrs. B and eventually receives good advice and wants to get her friendship with Paige back. She discovers a way to do this, by borrowing Mrs.B's mother's doll that is over 100 years old. Her plan works and Paige agrees to meet with Sarah and ends up loving the doll. But her plan backfires when Paige tells her that she quit the DDC, because Valerie was just as big of a boss as Sarah was. Paige tries to take the doll from Sarah and as a result of the struggle the doll fits the floor and cracks. Sarah eventually realizes that she and Paige will not be friends again and she needs to move on. In the end Sarah owns up to her mistakes and has learned that she doesn't need to fit in to be happy. She makes new friends with the two other girls that were not invited to join the DDC. Overall, this book relates to girls because every girl has lost a best friend due to popularity or a secret club. I think this gives girls a positive outcome to handle these situations and show that with time that they are able to move on and that there are move important things in life than being friends with certain people or joining a secret club.

The Double Digit Club

The book that I finished reading was The Double digit Club. The book was about a girl who had a friend that was going to turn ten and was going to have a small party. But Sara knew that Valerie Miller was going to ask Katie (Sara's friend)if she wanted to be part of her double digit club which ignored girls who weren't ten yet. I really recommend this book to people who have or had the same problem that Sara had. I really liked the book. But at the same time it was sad how the double digit club ignores girls who aren't ten yet. In my opinion the book was very interesting to read.

THe Double Digit Club

I loved the book i made all my friends read it! I couldn't put it down! Its heart warming story of a girl who lost her best and only friend to a stupid club called "The Double Digit Club." The Double Digit Club or DDC is a club that was made up by a girl named Valerie. Valerie is snotty but her birthday is before everyone so she is the oldest. Well the main character, Sarah, is happy till she fines out about the club. When you turn 10 she asked, no she tells you to join the DDC. Sarah has a friend named Paige who can speak for her self, Paige really wants to join the DDC but then Sarah would all alone. At this part of the book I asked my self, "Will Paige stay with Sarah or will she go with the DDCs?" and "Will Sarah and Paige be friends forever?" Sarah makes Paige said lines over and over again about what she's going to tell Valerie and the DDCs. Sarah regrets that she can't be the first one to say no to Valerie but she can't because her birthday is at the end of summer and by then Valerie will be 11! One day Paige and Sarah go to the beach and Sarah has a secret for Paige, she brought 10 cupcakes with candles and every thing. Then see the DDCs. At first Paige is afraid to sit over by them. But Sarah pushes her over by them. Sarah is shocked to see that Valerie had a cake made for Paige and everything. They tell Paige to come over and sit by them. Paige stands the speechless. So Sarah talks for her. It doesn't work Paige walks over and sits in the middle of the group with Valerie. Sarah is heart broken. The rest of the summer, for Sarah any way, is spent with Ms.B. Ms.B is Sarah's neighbor, who is blind. Her and Paige use to always go over there. Well She goes over like every day to make Ms. B's day. One day she looks for Ms. B's cat, he is no where is be found so Sarah goes up stairs. She the cat and there is a beautiful doll. Sarah as a plain to take the doll and show it to Paige so she will come back and they can be friends again! She was going to bring it right back but instead Paige and Sarah broke it, well mainly Paige did. Sarah tries to glue it together. Went to Ms. B's house the next day and Paige was there. They got in an even big fight and Sarah ends up tell Ms. B the truth about the Doll. Sarah soon lose hope of getting Paige back. Sarah decides to go to the Beach and she see twin that were in her class. She says hi and then the books ends!

A great Book

The Double Digit Club is a great book for readers ages 8-10,I read it in one day. This book has a great theme and most girls will like it. It is a story of how your true friends are always loyal,no matter what. This book is a fast and good read.