The Case of the Million Dollar Diamonds

Sweet Valley Kids Super Snoopers #6

by Francine Pascal (Creator), Molly Mia Stewart, Ying-Hwa Hu (Illustrator)

Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield and their friends in the Snoopers Club are on the trail of a diamond thief. They saw him in the mall jewelry store just before the precious gems were stolen. With the Snoopers' help, store guards catch the thief, but he has no diamonds! The Snoopers are determined to find them before the thief gets away with the million-dollar jewels. Will they catch him in time?

Genres: Chick Lit, Mystery, Childrens

87 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

Francine Paula Pascal was an American author best known for her Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High, the backbone of the collection, was made into a television series, which led to several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. Although most of these books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they remained so popular that several titles were re-released decades later.

Reviews

[Tara Calaby]

This one really upped the Super-Snooper stakes, with actual diamond thieves for the kids to go up against.

It seems kind of amazing that Mr. Wakefield would let a bunch of seven-year-olds go around the mall on their own, but the Sweet Valley books never were big on good parenting.

[Ruvi Perera · Rating 4 out of 5]

The super snooper series is a bit longer than the normal one but it's much more interesting.

[Kylie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s Christmas (againnnn) and the snoopers are visiting Santa at the mall. Mr Wakefield wants to visit a client and look for a present for the Mrs, so he leaves the kids except the Twins (he seems to be the only adult there 🤨) and they go to Mr Fox’s jewellery story. Mr Fox shows them 5 amazing diamonds from his safe, just as two men enter. The Wakefield’s leave to go back to the unaccompanied minors, and within minutes there’s a commotion of alarms and security guards and Mr Fox yelling. The diamond have somehow been stolen 🤔 One of the men from the store is chased and Winston trips him, he denies knowing anything, offers up his briefcase as proof. The diamonds aren’t there so they let him go. Yep. Lila bends over and finds one diamond, so the Snoopers decide to solve the case instead of handing it over. Ned goes off for an hour leaving the kids alone 🤦🏼‍♀️ and they see the other man coming. He convinces the security guard they call over that he’s innocent, then does the evil villain sly smile. They follow him, but aren’t very stealth. He threatens them and they’re running out of time so they split up. Long story short - see the next pic! Liz uses her head and solves the mystery again. The snoopers are heroes and each get a crystal ornament as a reward.
My rating - 5/10 - one of the more unrealistic ones (not the most though) but I liked that it was all in just over an hour! Neds parenting 0/10.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read so many of these books I can't remember all of them.