Seeing Double is the second book in the Clued In! Bratz book series.
Blurb[]
When a new girl arrives at Stiles High, the Bratz introduce her to the Boyz, but the Boyz are acting weird. Then the Bratz find out why--the Boyz have gotten strange notes signed by the Bratz. With their reputations threatened, the Bratz are on the case.
Characters[]
- Cloe
- Jade
- Sasha
- Yasmin
- Cameron
- Dylan
- Eitan
- Koby (Mentioned)
- Cade (Mentioned)
Synopsis[]
Cloe and Jade are attending their art history class. It is a class that is very hard to get into. Mr. Del Rio introduces them to a new student named Nona. Nona has just moved to town and doesn't know anyone. Cloe and Jade invite her to meet their friends and she agrees to come.
Outside they bump into Nona's sister Tess. Tess is rather rude and controlling, cutting people off and demanding her sister give her her phone. Cloe decides to introduce Nona to their male friends, Dylan, Cameron, Koby, Cade and Eitan. Although Koby and Cade are away on an exchange program, Jade writes a note to Dylan asking her to round up the boys and meet them and slips it into his locker
At lunch Yasmin, Sasha, Cloe and Jade mistakenly wave at Tess, mistaking her to be Nona. Nona joins them at the lunch table and the girls explain their nicknames to her. Cameron, Dylan and Eitan arrive just as the lunch bell rings. The girls decided to meet up with them later at the mall after school.
Cloe bumps into Tess into the hallway and apologises for mistaking her earlier. She invites Tess to come to the mall with them, but she declines. Cameron arrives and tells Cloe that Dylan had attention.
At the mall the girls split up into two groups and shop. When they meet up, Tess arrives and tells Sasha that she didn't get into the art committee because the school doesn't know what real art is. Yasmin is furious that Tess indirectly insulted Cloe's art. Tess tells Nona they're leaving in 5 minutes if she wants a ride. Cloe offers to give her a ride home later instead so she doesn't have to leave so early. Nona agrees to say.
The boys never show up so the next day at school Cloe goes to Cameron's locker to find out what happened. As she is running late she gives Nona a note to put inside Cameron's locker for her. Cloe bumps into Tess who is mad because she waited an hour the night before to drive Tess home. Cloe apologises and suggests Tess join the schools literary magazine as an illustrator. Tess tells Cloe she makes collages, not illustrations and leaves. Later the girls have a conference call to discuss the sudden absence of Dylan, Cameron and Eitan from their hang outs.
During the next Art Study class, Nona reveals that Eitan got detention for being late to biology class. Eitan has to work at the smoothie bar after school and if he's late he could lose his job.
Cloe tracks down Cameron in the hall but he doesn't seem to be happy to see her. He tells Cloe he does not appreciate the notes she has been leaving for them to meet her at weird places during weird times. These meetings have resulted in Cameron, Dylan and Eitan being late for classes and getting into trouble. Cloe apologises, but confirms she is not the one leaving those messages. Cameron tells her to watch out for Nona who has been saying rude things about Cloe and her friends in history class.
Cloe shares the news with her friends who are shocked and hurt to learn that Nona has been talking badly about them to others and that someone is framing them with fake notes. The girls try and get in the contact with the boys to sort things out. Cloe waits by Cameron's locker. When he arrives he is once again angry. Two days ago he'd received a note from Sasha inviting the guys to join them for a movie. They'd shown up and brought tickets and popcorn for everyone, only for no one to show up. Cameron shows Cloe a note she left him and Cloe once again confirms that the notes aren't hers.
The girls meet up at Quicks Clicks, an internet cafe near the school. Cloe shows Sasha, Yasmin and Jade a pile of fake notes she had gathered from the guys. She manages to piece together that every fake note references Nona in one way or another.
They confront Nona about the notes but she calls them crazy. She tells them Tess was right when she told her that Cloe and her friends were mean. The next day at lunch, Cloe bumps into Nona and apologises for her actions the day before. Nona apologises in return for overreacting. Cloe realises that Nona and Tess share clothes and that maybe some of the conversations they've had with Nona have actually been with Tess.
Cloe, Sasha, Jade, Yasmin, Dylan, Eitan and Cameron meet up at the Smoothie Bar to compare some new notes the boys had received. The boys have no interest in finding out who is behind the notes, but Cameron suggests they use different paper so they can tell it's actually them writing the notes.
Yasmin waits by Eitan's locker to find out if he brought any good CD's at the mall the night before. She bumps into Nona, who opens her locker to get books. She tells Yasmin that she and her sister know each other locker combination so they can use whichever one is closest. This interests Yasmin and she asks Nona to meet her at lunch.
Nona arrives to Mr. Del Rio's art class late and doesn't show up for lunch. Tess asks the girls if they'd seen Nona and then rushes away before they can reply. After lunch the girls go to the school auditorium to discuss an upcoming school trip. Nona arrives late once again and is given a lecture by the school Principal, Mr. MeNichols.
After the presentation Nona finds her sister and tells her kids have been handing her notes all day about changing classrooms. Nona confronts her sister about the fake notes. Tess reveals that whilst she originally wanted her and her sister to have separate friend groups and interests, she failed to make real friends. Lonely and jealous, she began writing fakes not to frame her sister so they would stop being friends with her.
Tess apologises to the girls and offers to apologise to the guys too. The girls compliment Tess on her art, accept her apology and invite her to come with them to the mall after schooL For the first time, Tess agrees.
Where to read[]
- The book can be read for free online with an account on Archive.org