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Best Friends (Sweet Valley Twins #1)
Growing apart...
Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield feel special because they're identical twins. For twelve years they've dressed alike, shared a room, and done everything together. But when they start Sweet Valley Middle School, everything begins to change.
Elizabeth wants to work on the class newspaper, but Jessica doesn't. Jessica would rather join the Unicorns, a snobby al...more
Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield feel special because they're identical twins. For twelve years they've dressed alike, shared a room, and done everything together. But when they start Sweet Valley Middle School, everything begins to change.
Elizabeth wants to work on the class newspaper, but Jessica doesn't. Jessica would rather join the Unicorns, a snobby al...more
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
July 1st 1986
by Sweet Valley
(first published 1986)
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This was a really powerful book for me because I felt psychologically pulled to identify with both Jessica and Elizabeth. Consequently, this sweet valley duality was the fountainhead of many years of existential anxiety for me. You see, what Pascal does that is so brilliant, is to present you with the choice between good and evil. Will I identify with wild, rule-breaking Jessica, popular and exciting? Or peaceful, rule-abiding Elizabeth, successful and righteous? It really tears you apart b/c yo...more
Jul 15, 2008
Courtney Stanton
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
everyone who's already read it once, but for the love of god keep it away from young girls now
Just as excellent as it was back in 1986 when I first read it. Also, Jessica Wakefield is a sociopath.
I didn't have an interest in reading these books, but I think one of my sisters must have because sometimes they were around the house and I was the kind of kid who'd randomly pick up and breeze through anything that was sitting there. Twins were a subject of mild interest to me, since my younger sister and I always pretended to be twins even though we weren't, so I related to the main problem of the book which was when the twin sisters who'd always done everything together started to grow apart...more
I left the Sweet Valley Kids series fairly quickly upon learning that a series for middle schoolers were available. And I wanted to start at the beginning; thinking that ah, this one's more age appropriate for me (then a 6th grader).
This was a great beginning to the Sweet Valley Twins series, wherein we got to witness an early-coming-of-age for the twins. This is of course due to their transition of grade levels and their choosing of both interests and friends. But the dilemma both faced and wer...more
This was a great beginning to the Sweet Valley Twins series, wherein we got to witness an early-coming-of-age for the twins. This is of course due to their transition of grade levels and their choosing of both interests and friends. But the dilemma both faced and wer...more
A strange re-hash of the first Sweet Valley High book: club pledging , mistaken idenity that tarnishes Liz's rep , starting a paper/writing for the paper - but when I was young , I didn't notice or care. Finally the twins were my age!( for more svh svt madness - check out my site - http://cliqueypizza.wordpress.com/) It's embarrassing to recall just how influential this series was to me and my friends. For a while we even started a Unicorn club - it quickly went ka-put... who could find that muc...more
Pascal, Francine. Sweet Valley Twins. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Print.
Genre: Children’s Chapter Books
Sweet Valley Twins by Francine Pascal is about two twins that have been so similar throughout their whole lives. When they move and start a new school they find out their interest are different and this raises a problem. This book gives readers the opportunity to look at the life of a teenage girl. Readers can relate to the characters in this book by age or the situations that they come in co...more
Genre: Children’s Chapter Books
Sweet Valley Twins by Francine Pascal is about two twins that have been so similar throughout their whole lives. When they move and start a new school they find out their interest are different and this raises a problem. This book gives readers the opportunity to look at the life of a teenage girl. Readers can relate to the characters in this book by age or the situations that they come in co...more
Read the whole series in elementary school. I would highly recommend this book to all young girls because it teaches good, core values. Like respecting your elders, respecting your parents, how to deal with siblings and the bonding of sisters, meeting new friends, and basically all the things that young girls might not know very well. My sister while growing up was 5 years older than me. I loved being around her, watching her, i guess being the typical annoying younger sister. While we did form...more
Oh my. Where to begin. I started reading these books when I was in second grade. I got the first four for Christmas and devoured them. And then they went around to every other girl in my class. The stories are a nice, sweet escape for an eight-year-old going through a tough time. Elizabeth and Jessica took me through many adventures through six years: starting with Twins, moving up to Sweet Valley High, then on to the Sagas and Sweet Valley University. The Sweet Valley Twins books remained my fa...more
This series was pure trash, and I devoured every single volume contained within its clutches. It really rotted my brain from my impressionable middle school years all the way until high school, when I pretended that I totally didn't reach for these kiddie books anymore. I loathed Elizabeth and worshipped Lila Fowler. How the hell did Mandy manage to construct a fashionable outfit from one visit to the hardware store?! Why was Bruce Patman named 'Bruce'? I surely didn't know anyone under the age...more
I LOVED the Sweet Valley Twins Series. I think I started reading them in Grade 4-5, along with the Baby-Sitter's club books. They were totally formulaic but the nice thing was you didn't necessarily have to read them in order. Elizabeth was my favorite twin. Jessica was kind of mean. I felt like I hit the jackpot if I found at least one in the local library. They were easy to find by their pastel-covered spines along the rows of books.
By grade 6 I think I read them all and started reading the Sw...more
By grade 6 I think I read them all and started reading the Sw...more
Oct 08, 2007
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I'm only adding the first book because I think I read about sixty of these when I was eleven or twelve, and I really don't feel like searching through them all. I loved this series, though, and I think to some degree it actually ruined my life. See, I started reading these in fifth grade, and I looked forward to going to middle school the next year because it would be OMFG JUST LIKE SWEET VALLEY. Yeah. It wasn't. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice books were much closer to reality, but I didn't dis...more
This series began the year I was in 6th grade and was where I found all my advice on being what we then called a pre-teen (now: tween). Also prompted my best friend and I to begin our own private Purple Unicorns and wore purple every day somewhere on our bodies to show we were member for six months. We even made a clubhouse. Um, we were the only two members lol.
These were my favorite series of books from my tween years. How I yearned to be the best friend of Elizabeth Wakefield, or possess the power over the prepubescent boy crowd, like Jessica could. I have to give the 4 star rating based on how I devoured these books as a 11 year old girl, but in all reality I probably wouldn't want my daughter to read them.
These were my favorite books growing up! Through all our teenage years my sister and I were good girls and we're convinced that it is partly due to the fact that we read these books :) Seriously, Elizabeth is good, Jessica is the rebel- and Elizabeth always "wins", Jessica always "loses".
I know what u thinking "you! sweet valley" but yeah man from sweet valley kids to sweet valley high to sweet valley university when Jessica starts having an affair with her married professor who has a psycho wife...intrigue...
"Shannon 1991." I think that by the time I whizzed through all the Sweet Valley Kids books, Mom said it was OK for me to read Sweet Valley Twins, as long as we talked about any questionable stuff. Totally fair.
I devoured these books from age 10, read every one of them at least twice. Makes me very nostalgic looking at them. Would recommend but I'm wondering if they may be a little dated for the kids now.
Oh man...what a trip down memory lane. This book is a great introduction to Jessica and Elizabeth, and sets the tone for the rest of the series. These were pretty much my crack when I was a kid.
This was one of the books that I liked both Jessica and Elizabeth. I thought that it was a very good book that showed how the twins arent exactly alike like everyone thought that they were.
Loved this series when I was younger. And of course I went from Sweet Vally Twins to Sweet Valley High and I'm pretty sure I read some of the college books too. They were such good books!
Dec 06, 2008
Jessica
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Haa Haaa! Remember these?! Jessica, a "Unicorn" who wore something purple everyday and Elizabeth, the not-so-cooler twin. Loved them! I even had the Sweet Valley High game board!
A favorite series of mine as a kid. These books are great and I think would still be significant to young readers today as they deal with issues many kids go through.
I'm only going to rate this one because I read them so long ago that I can't remember which ones I read. I did enjoy reading them as a pre-teen & teenager.
i did a book report on this book in 4th grade! that's right! and then i continued to read the entire wacky-ie, ridiculous- series!
Feb 12, 2009
Heather
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I'm not going to mark all of these - I read #1 through about #35 or 40 - however many they have! I loved these in elementary school.
Jun 02, 2011
Alexia
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I didn't finish this book cause I just read it wail I was waiting for one to be retired to the library but the beginning was good!:)
Jan 28, 2010
LaRee Allen
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OH MY!! I adore these books, i started them when i was in 4th grade!! I wish I owned them all for my daughter to read when she's older.
Not really a great book, but I LOVED these when I was in grade school, I think I had every single one...and still do somewhere.
Feb 07, 2009
Christina
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I was ADDICTED to these as a kid. They are completely inane as a grown up, but still a guilty, and almost, shameful, pleasure. :)
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Francine Pascal (May 13, 1938— ) is an American author best known for creating the Sweet Valley series of novels. In 1982 she created the characters and the stories for the first six books and her agent, Amy Berkower of Writers House sold them to Bantam Books. Book number one is mostly written by Ms. Pascal. From then on she wrote the stories for every book ever published in the series. After the...more
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