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Double Fudge 
1st editionAuthor(s) Judy Blume Country USA Language English Genre(s) Children's novel Publisher Dutton Publication date 2002 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 213 pp ISBN 0-525-46926-5 OCLC Number 49664589 LC Classification PZ7.B6265 Do 2002 Preceded by Fudge-A-Mania Double Fudge is a 2002 children's novel by Judy Blume and the fourth in the Fudge series. It deals with Fudge Hatcher liking money, and the Hatcher family goes to Washington, D.C. and they deal with their related family. Fudge also finds out that his cousin is also named Farley Drexel Hatcher.
Plot summary
Peter has just turned twelve years old. His little brother Fudge is five and 1/2 years old, but isn't old enough for first grade yet and is put into a mixed group. He takes up an obsessive and greedy love for money and his family decide to take him to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. to show how money is made in hopes of curing his obsession. However, the plan doesn't work, and instead they meet up with their long-lost cousins, the Howie Hatchers. There is Howie, a park ranger who resides in Honolulu, Hawaii and is traveling the country, his pregnant wife Eudora, their perfect, slightly overindulged identical twin daughters Flora and Fauna who are sometimes nicknamed the "Natural Beauties," and the "Heavenly Hatchers," and last but not least, three-year-old Farley Drexel Hatcher, which is also Fudge's real name. The boys are left alone with their cousins and learn that the Natural Beauties have been trying to find a nickname for Farley and try to use Fudge's own nickname. He tries to save his precious nickname from being stolen by the Natural Beauties for Farley's own use by shouting, only to be bitten in the leg by him. After the two are broken up, Peter suggests the Natural Beauties call Farley "Mini-Fudge," but when the other Fudge disagrees, the name is changed to Mini-Farley.
The Howies invite themselves to stay with the Hatchers when they arrive in New York, and when they do arrive, they only cause more mayhem than ever before. Fudge begins to grow a grudge against Mini, the Natural Beauties embarrass Peter when they break into song in public and are invited to perform at an assembly at his school, Mini lets Uncle Feather, Fudge's myna bird who has stopped talking, out of his cage and he has a near-death incident (which causes him to begin talking again), Fudge goes trick-or-treating with Mini on Halloween and they get stuck in the elevator, and near the end of the story, in a semi-homage to the original Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Mini swallows Fudge's baby tooth that had just fallen out. The Howies quickly depart from the Hatchers' apartment due to him throwing a fit, and after writing a note to the Tooth Fairy to explain what happened, he still tries to get some more Tooth Fairy money by using a box of Peter's old baby teeth. He takes it back and places it under his own pillow because "you never know."
External links
Works by Judy Blume Fudge series Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing • Superfudge • Fudge-a-Mania • Double Fudge • characters
Novels The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo • Iggie's House • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. • Then Again, Maybe I Won't • Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great • Freckle Juice • It's Not the End of the World • Deenie • Blubber • Forever... • Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself • Wifey • Tiger Eyes • Smart Women • Just as Long as We're Together • Here's to You, Rachel Robinson • Summer Sisters
Non-fiction and others The Judy Blume Diary • Letters to Judy: What Kids Wish They Could Tell You • The Pain and the Great One • Places I Never Meant to Be
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