Fabulous Five 019 - The Boys-Only Club Read Online Free PDF

own clique and The Fabulous Five. "I see what you
mean," said Katie. "But how can we convince the other girls to go
along with it?"
    "The Fabulous Five have a lot of pull with the girls
from Mark Twain Elementary, and The Fantastic Foursome have pull with the kids
from Riverfield. All we need is to get them to do it, and the kids from Copper
Beach Elementary will want to because everyone else is. Right?"
    "Right," Katie said. She couldn't believe she was
actually making a pact with Laura McCall.
    Laura motioned The Fantastic Foursome closer. "This is
what we'll do," she said in a conspiratorial voice. "Katie, you and
The Fabulous Five start working on the Mark Twain girls, and we'll do the same
with the Riverfield girls. We'll all talk to the Copper Beach kids. It'll be a
cinch. We can also get some signatures for your petition."
    Katie looked at her dubiously. It did sound logical,
and Laura was right about the girls' having to show the boys that they could do
without dating just as easily as the boys could. But would the other girls
really go along with it? There was only one way to find out.

CHAPTER 7
    " Spend Saturday evening with a bunch of girls? You've got to be kidding!" Melanie had a look of panic on her face.
    "I'm just talking about doing it long enough to teach
the boys a lesson," said Katie. The Fabulous Five had gathered at her house
after school at her request. They were sprawled around her bedroom.
    "I'm sort of mad at Randy, too," said Jana,
looking at Katie. "I never thought he'd make plans to do something on
Friday nights without talking to me about it first."
    "Me, too, with Keith," said Beth. "And I
really let him have it."
    "I heard that Richie Corrierro, Curtis Trowbridge, and
D. J. Doyle have joined the computer club," said Christie.
    "D.J? He's a ninth-grader," said Jana.
    "All the boys are joining," said Beth.
    "Laura McCall said The Fantastic Foursome would talk to
the girls from Riverfield who are going with boys in the computer club, if we
talk to the girls from Mark Twain," Katie said.
    "That's the part that worries me the most," said
Jana. "I don't trust Laura McCall any more than I'd trust Freddie from Nightmare
on Elm Street. How do we know she'll do what she says?"
    "We could check with some of the kids from Riverfield
to see if she's really talking to them about joining," suggested Christie.
    "And Jana, you could talk to Funny Hawthorne,"
added Beth. "She wouldn't lie to you."
    "I don't want Laura to pull something on us any more
than you guys do," Katie said. "We'll just have to watch her real
close."
    Jana picked up Gwyneth Plum's notebook and flipped through
the pages. "Okay, we all agree that we should try to get girls to join a
girls-only club. What are we supposed to do at the meetings? Do we give the
club a name?"
    Katie cleared her throat, and the others looked at her. "What
about calling it GRIT?"
    "GRIT?" echoed Christie. "What does that
stand for?"
    "Girls' Rights are Important Too," answered Katie.
"That's what Gwyneth Plum named her club."
    Beth shook her head. "I think if we get too heavy into
feminism we'll scare people off. Most of the girls we know just want to have a
good time. They really don't feel discriminated against at Wakeman."
    "I agree," said Jana. "They might think it's
fun to shake the boys up, but they won't want to take a chance on making them
permanently mad. Would you want to do that with Tony?"
    Katie hesitated. "I guess not," she said quietly.
    "What about the petition?" asked Christie. "How
many names do we have?"
    "I've got three," said Jana. "And one's mine."
    "Eight," said Katie. "It would only have been
four if Laura and her friends hadn't signed."
    "I got five," volunteered Beth.
    "Three for me," said Melanie.
    "And five girls signed mine. That makes a total of
twenty-four," said Christie. "That's not enough to interest Mr. Bell
in starting a class for girls." She gave Katie a weak smile of sympathy. "We
tried."
    "I can't understand it," said Katie.