Double Trouble

Double Trouble #1

by Gabriel (Illustrator), Michael Pellowski, Mel Crawford

Sandi and Randi are identical twins with a two-year-old brother-Terrible Teddy. Cute little Teddy destroys their homework and gets into their things. But it's the day he mistakes one twin for the other that leads to a case of double trouble!

Genres: Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Kids

120 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1986

Reviews

[Darlene · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up a set of books by this author at a used book sale. This was something that I would have enjoyed as a child, so I thought that they would make good read-alouds for my younger daughter.

I was right! It was funny, and my daughter and I laughed at the switcheroo played by the ten-year-old twins. Although the twins are identical in appearance, they are very different. Randi is more of a tomboy with a love of sports, and Sandi is more of a girly-girl who prefers to wear dresses and read "romance" novels. Because this book was written in the 80s, societal rules and social norms were very different then than they are today. For example, Sandi's punishment for breaking the "no makeup" rule is to stay home and babysit her little brother Teddy while her parents go out to watch Randi's soccer game. Where we live, kids cannot be left home alone until the age of 12 so it would be illegal to have a ten-year-old babysitting!

When Randi's grades slip, her teacher requires her to come in for after-school help which means that she will miss the big soccer championship playoff game. Since Randi can't be in two places at once, Sandi helps her twin by impersonating her.

We enjoyed this older middle-grade chapter book, and we are currently reading the sequel, Triple Trouble.

This review was posted on my book blog:
https://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.com...

[Savannah Ayer · Rating 2 out of 5]

well, it most about twins and they get into trouble. The brother gets them in trouble all the time.
Those are the twins Teddy and Randi. Randi likes play sports she went in to a sepll bee so she can get her grad up.

[Tanya · Rating 3 out of 5]

I came across this little gem from my childhood when I was cleaning out my father's house. I remember wanting to be like Randi and cursing my poor luck that I wasn't born a twin. Ah well... a nice trip down memory lane. This story is meant for a younger audience butvI still found it cute.

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read because my daughter loves this book. Glad that it was free from typical kid book snark.

[Kristina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't remember much of this one, but I did like it. I remember their little brother would mess with their stuff and I could totally relate to that!

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite books as a kid! I just found it in Mom's basement and read it. Other than 10-year-olds who are slightly sneaky and frequently frustrated with their 2-year-old brother there wasn't anything that bugged me so my daughter's reading it right now. She sounds as excited to read about twins tricking people as I was when I was a kid :-)

[Maura · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved reading these books as a kid. Sandy and Randy are twins. Sandy of course likes to sing and do girlie stuff, while Randy likes to do tomboy stuff. Naturally - that's every twin story ever written. But I loved reading about them because they were twins and I wanted to be a twin!

[Tracy Weddle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty cute book for teens or pre-teens.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Randomly remembered these books today. Absolutely adored them.

[Tamara]

Certainly someone thought it would be cute to buy twins a book about twins.

[Hillary]

LOVED this book as a kid!