A Girl Named Digit

By Annabel Monaghan

Farrah "Digit" Higgins may be going to MIT in the fall, but this L.A. high school genius has left her geek self behind in another school district so she can blend in with the popular crowd at Santa Monica High and actually enjoy her senior year. But when Farrah, the daughter of a UCLA math professor, unknowingly cracks a terrorist group's number sequence, her laid-back senior year gets a lot more interesting. Soon she is personally investigating the case, on the run from terrorists, and faking her own kidnapping-- all while trying to convince a young, hot FBI agent to take her seriously. So much for blending in . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Jun 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9780547668949

Annabel Monaghan

Annabel Monaghan is the author of A Girl Named Digit and the coauthor of Click! A Girl’s Guide to Getting What She Wants. She lives with her family in Rye, New York. Visit her website at www.annabelmonaghan.com.

Reviews for A Girl Named Digit

[ftbooklover · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Farrah Higgins has been known as Digit for most of her life due to her extraordinary ability with numbers, puzzles, and codes. Moving to a new school has given her the opportunity to hide her abilities in order to appear "normal," but one night when watching one of her friends' favorite teen shows on television, she notices a group of numbers in the corner of the screen. She is fascinated when different numbers appear for the next three weeks, but when she begins to figure out the meaning of those numbers and realizes that they point to a terrorist attack that occurred at JFK Airport, she has to find someone who will listen to her theory. After several failed attempts, she finally gets an FBI agent to listen to her, which leads to a fast-paced chase that takes her from California to New York and back again.
Digit uses sarcasm and a natural sense of humor that make her many quirks hard not to like. When she meets John, the young FBI agent that believes her story, the action, adventure, and romance amp up pretty quickly. Overall, a quick enjoyable young adult read.

[raeadav · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love books about nerds.

[sandsing7 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A Girl Named Digit was akin to eating cotton candy. It's colorful, it's enticing, it's a treat, and it disappears very fast, but a couple hours later you're sitting there wondering if it was really such a good idea. Digit is a girl with a mathematical gift, which is great to see in a young female protagonist, but it seems that she only uses her gift to impress John and his father. She is so focused on getting the boy that she shows very little concern that she's being hunted by terrorists, and the sappy "boy gives up life-long dream to be with girl he's only known for a few weeks" is hardly something to write home about. Overall, it was a lot of fun going down but it left me with a tummy ache.

[issacdiamond · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Very good book, but seemed to focus more on romance then crime-fighting

[ekanderson_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I loved A GIRL NAMED DIGIT. With a tough-as-nails (but totally girlie) heroine, a la early Buffy, a sexy secret agent, and plenty of villains to go around, Annabel Monaghan's first novel is pretty much unputdownable.Farrah -- or Digit, as she used to be called, due to her prodigious talent for math -- has been hiding her skills from her BFFs. Airheaded as they may be, they're her girls, and she'd hate to have them reject her if they found out that she had perfect test scores (hidden under lock and key by the school) and early acceptance to MIT. Only her family knows that she's Digit, long having shed the nickname that made her an outcast at her last school. But when Farrah unlocks a secret terrorist code while watching TV, she storms into the FBI to let them know she's onto the bad guys. There's one big hitch, though: the FBI thinks she's nuts.Of course, it's not long before they figure out that Farrah is onto something, and they put her in hiding with a very young agent, John, who has a lot to prove if he's going to move up in the agency. Suddenly, both Farrah and John realize they're in way over their heads, and they'll have to travel cross-country to uncover a plot even more sinister than they could have imagined.A fun, Alias-esque thrill-ride, A GIRL MAKE DIGIT makes a fun summer read for girls who want a some fast-paced action with their romance...and a little romance with their explosion scenes. Props to Annabel Monaghan for making it happen!

[24girl_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Seventeen year old Farrah "Digit" Higgins has a secret. She's a super math genius but when she moved, she decided that she was going to make a fresh start at her new high school and hide her gift to become one of the popular girls. While hanging with her friends watching a mind-numbing teen show, Farrah noticed something. For the past 3 weeks she's watched a number sequence pop up during the show's opening credits and when she gets to thinking about it she realizes that the show is being used as a method of communication for environmental terrorists who have just killed 8 people. Now all she has to do is convince the FBI to take her seriously.I think it's kind of creepy that Farrah and the FBI agent, John Bennett, hook up in this book since she's only seventeen (about to be 18) and he's twenty-one so I had a hard time accepting the relationship but other than that I loved the story and thought it was well done. I'm sure many teenagers can relate to hiding in plain site and I'm glad that Farrah was able to get past her insecurities about her talent and learn how to manage it in the real world while embracing the "Digit" side of herself. The storyline was fast-paced and realistic (yes, teens do drink at parties) and I recommend this one for both young adult and adult readers as a fun quick read.