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Sweet Valley Twins #7
Three's a Crowd
Sixth grader Mary Giaccio, a foster child yearning for her real mother, tries to substitute Mrs. Wakefield for her mother, but those attempts may jeopardize her friendship with Jessica and Elizabeth
105 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1987
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Francine Pascal
1,139 books1,839 followersFrancine 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.
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April 5, 2023I will happily overlook all manner of unrealistic things when it comes to Sweet Valley. I will nod and accept the fact that people still love Jessica, despite her constant scheming (because, hey, I love her too) and take it in my stride that people consider Elizabeth popular and kind, instead of boring and holier-than-though. But I just can't take the complete and utter ridiculousness of this book. Not only is it extremely impossible, but it also sends a really dangerous message to kids.
Okay, so the story. We've met Mary Giaccio here and there before as one of the just-a-name Unicorns. But suddenly she's always at the Wakefield house, which is helped by the fact that she lives with her foster parents, just up the road. Jess quickly realises that Mary is more interested in spending time with Alice than she is with Jess or Elizabeth and gets totally creeped out by the fact. I don't entirely blame her. It's weird if your thirteen-year-old friend comes over so she can wash dishes.
Eventually Jess puts her foot down and stops letting Mary invite herself over... so Mary moves on to Elizabeth. At first Liz doesn't see what Jess is on about, but then eventually even she can't help but notice that the twins are totes being used to get at their mother. And so the house becomes a No Mary Zone.
(At this point, I can't help but think that this would've been a much cooler book if it turned out that Mary had a big ol' crush on Alice. After all, we're always being told how hot she is.)
Eventually
I feel like it's too early in my re-read to call it, but I am pretty damn certain that this is my least liked Sweet Valley Twins book. It just drives me way too crazy trying to deal with the utter NOPE of its plot.
Moral of the Story? Foster kids always get the happy endings they dream of.
[Re-read]
Okay, so the story. We've met Mary Giaccio here and there before as one of the just-a-name Unicorns. But suddenly she's always at the Wakefield house, which is helped by the fact that she lives with her foster parents, just up the road. Jess quickly realises that Mary is more interested in spending time with Alice than she is with Jess or Elizabeth and gets totally creeped out by the fact. I don't entirely blame her. It's weird if your thirteen-year-old friend comes over so she can wash dishes.
Eventually Jess puts her foot down and stops letting Mary invite herself over... so Mary moves on to Elizabeth. At first Liz doesn't see what Jess is on about, but then eventually even she can't help but notice that the twins are totes being used to get at their mother. And so the house becomes a No Mary Zone.
(At this point, I can't help but think that this would've been a much cooler book if it turned out that Mary had a big ol' crush on Alice. After all, we're always being told how hot she is.)
Eventually
I feel like it's too early in my re-read to call it, but I am pretty damn certain that this is my least liked Sweet Valley Twins book. It just drives me way too crazy trying to deal with the utter NOPE of its plot.
Moral of the Story? Foster kids always get the happy endings they dream of.
[Re-read]
October 24, 2010
I never met a Wakefield I didn't like...Some people had summer camp, I read a lot of sweet valley in the summer. It was more fun and there were fewer bugs.
April 21, 2024
To be honest it is more a 3.5/5 stars. Even when I was at the age that these books were meant to be fore I didn't like Jessica. It seems like she can do so much wrong and she comes out smelling like flowers and this one just annoyed me a little more then normal.
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May 25, 2022Three’s A Crowd
At a Unicorn meeting, Janet says they need to come up with a fundraiser so they can sponsor a dance next month. Mary comes up with the idea to ask celebrities for their favorite recipes and they’ll make a cookbook. Jessica volunteers *her* electric typewriter. She figures Liz won’t mind and she might even *help* her type her letter. Mary asks to come home with Jessica, but she and Ellen are going to the mall.
The next day, Mary asks again and Jessica agrees On the way Jessica admires Mary’s silver and gold bracelet. Mary tells Mrs. Wakefield all about her idea. She and Jessica work on their letters. Jessica decides to write to Parker Smith (an actor on the soap).Amy and Liz come home happy that Caroline says they’re getting soda and candy machines in the lunchroom. Mrs. Wakefield invites Amy and Mary to stay for dinner, but Mary has to get home to the Altman’s. They agree to meet back at the Wakefield’s the next day (because they might need Liz’s type wrier). Later that night, Jessica bugs Liz to type her letter. So Liz says if she’ll get the information from Mr. Bowman for Career Day she’ll type the letter. Of course, Jessica gets all the names and dates mixed up. All she hears is that Gretchen Tyler (a famous designer will be there) and can’t wait to tell Lila.
The next day, when Mary gets to the Wakefield’s she’s all under Mrs. Wakefield's offering to help her cook and wash the dishes. Back at SVMS, Mr. Bowman pulls Liz to the side after everyone is about to leave and congratulates her on the great job she’s doing as editor. He says that he thinks the Sixers has a good chance of winning a competition that the LA Newspaper Guild holds yearly for the best middle school newspaper. The prize is 100.00 and he’s going to enter the current issue for Career Day. Jessica again annoys Liz that night about the typewriter about Janet coming over the next day, but Liz says the typewriter is at school. Jess says she’ll just come by and pick it up. Liz is supposed to be staying late anyway to throw Mr. Bowman a birthday party so she says pick it up at three.
Mary sees Jessica the next day and yet again tries to follow her home, but she says Janet will be coming by to type her letter. Mary says she needs to type *her* letter but Jessica says Janet isa slow typist. Mary says that’s ok. She can wait. When Janet comes over, she has Betsy and Tamera with her who also want to type *their* letters. Jessica has no idea how the type writer works and when Janet asks her she says she jammed her finger bc of Lois Wallter. So Janet messes up the typewriter. Liz picks then to come home and tell Jessica she messed up the information and now she’s going to have to spend all night re-typing the article.
Mary amazingly fixes the typewriter and reveals she’s a good typist. Mary tries to invite herself over the next day, but Jessica says she’s going over to Ellen’s. She invites Mary but she turns it down. This proves to Jess that Mary only wants to hang out over his house (especially if her mother is there). She asks Ellen if she likes to come over and hang around her mother, but Ellen just looks at her like she’s crazy. Instead, Mary sees Elizabeth goin g home and comes home with her. She’s there the next day. This time she and Mrs. Wakefield are talking about how she meet Ned. Mrs. Wakefield invites her to stay for dinner, but she says that she can’t that night, but she’ll come tomorrow.
The next day Jessica tells her at school she’s coming down with a virus. But Liz shows up and Mary is with her. Mary comes home with Elizabeth again when she finds Amy, Louis, and Liz in the Cafeteria disappointed that it was just a rumor that there would be no soda or candy machines. They all decide to hang out at the Wakefields and raid their fridge. Jessica finds out later and gets upset. That night she makes Liz promise not to invite Mary over anymore or let her invite herself over. Jessica thinks it’s creepy how she sticks to her mom. Liz kinda noticed it today but wonders how she’s going to tell Mary she can’t come over.
Eventually after having to keep turning down Mary, Liz just all out tells her they think she’s weird for hanging around their mother too much. Mary then starts to avoid both twins. At a Unicorn meeting, Janet says they have enough recipes and it’s time to start typing the cookbook. Of course, Jess has forgotten about this. She wishes she and Mary were still friends. Mary comes over to her after the meeting with a gift-her silver and gold bracelet- and apologizes. They’re back friend’s again.
On Career Day, all the Unicorns sign up for Gretchen Tyler. Elizabeth saves her till last to do a write up. She sits in the back and boredly writes something mediocre about Gretchen’s “strange” outfit. It’s bright orange, with webbed tights, and a lot of socks. The Unicorns give her standing applause! Mary and Jessica work on the cookbook, Mrs. Wakefield announces that the master copy of the Sixer’s Career Day issue is in an envelope on the kitchen counter. While reading the article about Gretchen, Jessica is fooling around dancing and spills grape juice on it. She and Mary type it over (adding their own embellishments) and it’s short so they add a recipe at the bottom. (Later that night she hears her father tell her mother the Altmans want to adopt Mary. Even though Liz warns her against telling Mary’s news and letting her tell it herself, , Jessica adds the news to the bottom of Caroline’s gossip column
Elizabeth finds out about Jessica’s rewrite. Mary finds out about what Jessica did when the Unicorns congratulate her. She confesses to Elizabeth that she can’t accept the adoption. When she was four her bio parents got divorced. Her mother decided to move to Cali, but they ran out of money in Kansas. Her mother took a job as a waitress and met a lady named Annie. She was left with Annie while her mother went to Florida because her grandparents got sick. She never saw her mother aqgain. Eventually she got too much for Annie and she abandoned her. She found herself going from foster home to foster home. She really liked the Altman’s best of all. But this afternoon she had to decline their offer. Liz offers to come with her but she says she has to do it on her own. Elizabeth offers that if she needs someone to talk to later call her. Elizabeth and Jessica get into an argument because Elizabeth didn’t appreciate her changing what she wrote. But Mary has a talk with her and says that Jessica was just being Jessica. She tells Liz that by the end of the term, Social Services will make her leave the Altman’s since she declined their offer. Mr.Bowman seems to like Jessica’s version of the Gretchen article, so Liz looks it over and sees that it’s more colorful. So she makes some minor changes and keeps most of what Jessica wrote.
After school Jessica, Mary, Amy, and Liz are supposed to walk home together, but Amy gets detention. Liz stays behind and sees a lady that looks a lot like her mother coming toward her in the parking lot. The lady isn’t but she starts asking a lot of questions about Mary. Liz and Amy let her walk home with them. The lady is full of questions about how Mary is (if she’s happy) and the Altman’s. Liz at first thinks she’s Annie, but then it hits her. It’s Mary’s mother. It turned out that Andrea Robinson had been looking for Mary for seven years, but Annie had changed her name and Mary’s name to Giaco (her family’s name). Andrea is living in a town over. Mary tells Elizabeth that she doesn’t want to move but she’s scared to tell her mother for fear she’ll seem ungrateful. So Mrs. Wakefield talks to her mother and since Andrea really likes Sweet Valley she agrees to look for an apartment there. The Unicorns cookbook turns out to be a success. Elizabeth buys one for Mr. Bowman because they won the contest. She’s going to buy another for her mother but Mary offers to buy it for her.
My Thoughts:
I know this is gonna sound weird but I usually don’t sympathize with Jessica but here.. See I know all to weel how it feels when someone outside your family starts hanging around your mother a lot and how CREEPY that is. There’s this person that’s at her house every time I look up that supposedly doing “work” for her. And somehow, I don’t think she reminds him of the long-lost mother that he got kidnapped from.
Mary definitely went a little bit overboard. People may be nice about you coming to visit them but you just can’t overstay your welcome. I had that happen to a family member. You never want to wear out your welcome and it will happen QUICKLY if you don’t watch it and get to comfortable!
It was touching that Mary found her mom though. That was one of the most memorable parts for me. Annie showing up would have given it a whole other *tone*. I was happy that it all worked out in the end for the Robinsons. It just felt good to show that if you believe in something strongly enough (or someone) your dream just might come true.
As far as Jessica’s rewrite though about Gretchen Tyler I just don’t see how she couldn’t have filled a page and had to include a recipe. We all know how big Jessica is into fashion. You can’t tell me she didn’t have Gretchen’s whole speech memorized (and had this been modern-day recorded on a cell phone) word for word. She probably could have added quotes and thoughts and *everything* to that article.
The only thing I can really criticize is Amy and Elizabeth. Even though this did turn out to be Mary's mom, they definitely didn't know that at first. It could have been Annie and they would have led her right to their house. They gave away WAY too much information to a stranger they'd only met a second ago about this girl with such a troubled past. Then as we learn much later in this series Sweet Valley isn't always just beautiful and beaches. It's kidnapping, psychos, and stalkers.
Rating: 7
At a Unicorn meeting, Janet says they need to come up with a fundraiser so they can sponsor a dance next month. Mary comes up with the idea to ask celebrities for their favorite recipes and they’ll make a cookbook. Jessica volunteers *her* electric typewriter. She figures Liz won’t mind and she might even *help* her type her letter. Mary asks to come home with Jessica, but she and Ellen are going to the mall.
The next day, Mary asks again and Jessica agrees On the way Jessica admires Mary’s silver and gold bracelet. Mary tells Mrs. Wakefield all about her idea. She and Jessica work on their letters. Jessica decides to write to Parker Smith (an actor on the soap).Amy and Liz come home happy that Caroline says they’re getting soda and candy machines in the lunchroom. Mrs. Wakefield invites Amy and Mary to stay for dinner, but Mary has to get home to the Altman’s. They agree to meet back at the Wakefield’s the next day (because they might need Liz’s type wrier). Later that night, Jessica bugs Liz to type her letter. So Liz says if she’ll get the information from Mr. Bowman for Career Day she’ll type the letter. Of course, Jessica gets all the names and dates mixed up. All she hears is that Gretchen Tyler (a famous designer will be there) and can’t wait to tell Lila.
The next day, when Mary gets to the Wakefield’s she’s all under Mrs. Wakefield's offering to help her cook and wash the dishes. Back at SVMS, Mr. Bowman pulls Liz to the side after everyone is about to leave and congratulates her on the great job she’s doing as editor. He says that he thinks the Sixers has a good chance of winning a competition that the LA Newspaper Guild holds yearly for the best middle school newspaper. The prize is 100.00 and he’s going to enter the current issue for Career Day. Jessica again annoys Liz that night about the typewriter about Janet coming over the next day, but Liz says the typewriter is at school. Jess says she’ll just come by and pick it up. Liz is supposed to be staying late anyway to throw Mr. Bowman a birthday party so she says pick it up at three.
Mary sees Jessica the next day and yet again tries to follow her home, but she says Janet will be coming by to type her letter. Mary says she needs to type *her* letter but Jessica says Janet isa slow typist. Mary says that’s ok. She can wait. When Janet comes over, she has Betsy and Tamera with her who also want to type *their* letters. Jessica has no idea how the type writer works and when Janet asks her she says she jammed her finger bc of Lois Wallter. So Janet messes up the typewriter. Liz picks then to come home and tell Jessica she messed up the information and now she’s going to have to spend all night re-typing the article.
Mary amazingly fixes the typewriter and reveals she’s a good typist. Mary tries to invite herself over the next day, but Jessica says she’s going over to Ellen’s. She invites Mary but she turns it down. This proves to Jess that Mary only wants to hang out over his house (especially if her mother is there). She asks Ellen if she likes to come over and hang around her mother, but Ellen just looks at her like she’s crazy. Instead, Mary sees Elizabeth goin g home and comes home with her. She’s there the next day. This time she and Mrs. Wakefield are talking about how she meet Ned. Mrs. Wakefield invites her to stay for dinner, but she says that she can’t that night, but she’ll come tomorrow.
The next day Jessica tells her at school she’s coming down with a virus. But Liz shows up and Mary is with her. Mary comes home with Elizabeth again when she finds Amy, Louis, and Liz in the Cafeteria disappointed that it was just a rumor that there would be no soda or candy machines. They all decide to hang out at the Wakefields and raid their fridge. Jessica finds out later and gets upset. That night she makes Liz promise not to invite Mary over anymore or let her invite herself over. Jessica thinks it’s creepy how she sticks to her mom. Liz kinda noticed it today but wonders how she’s going to tell Mary she can’t come over.
Eventually after having to keep turning down Mary, Liz just all out tells her they think she’s weird for hanging around their mother too much. Mary then starts to avoid both twins. At a Unicorn meeting, Janet says they have enough recipes and it’s time to start typing the cookbook. Of course, Jess has forgotten about this. She wishes she and Mary were still friends. Mary comes over to her after the meeting with a gift-her silver and gold bracelet- and apologizes. They’re back friend’s again.
On Career Day, all the Unicorns sign up for Gretchen Tyler. Elizabeth saves her till last to do a write up. She sits in the back and boredly writes something mediocre about Gretchen’s “strange” outfit. It’s bright orange, with webbed tights, and a lot of socks. The Unicorns give her standing applause! Mary and Jessica work on the cookbook, Mrs. Wakefield announces that the master copy of the Sixer’s Career Day issue is in an envelope on the kitchen counter. While reading the article about Gretchen, Jessica is fooling around dancing and spills grape juice on it. She and Mary type it over (adding their own embellishments) and it’s short so they add a recipe at the bottom. (Later that night she hears her father tell her mother the Altmans want to adopt Mary. Even though Liz warns her against telling Mary’s news and letting her tell it herself, , Jessica adds the news to the bottom of Caroline’s gossip column
Elizabeth finds out about Jessica’s rewrite. Mary finds out about what Jessica did when the Unicorns congratulate her. She confesses to Elizabeth that she can’t accept the adoption. When she was four her bio parents got divorced. Her mother decided to move to Cali, but they ran out of money in Kansas. Her mother took a job as a waitress and met a lady named Annie. She was left with Annie while her mother went to Florida because her grandparents got sick. She never saw her mother aqgain. Eventually she got too much for Annie and she abandoned her. She found herself going from foster home to foster home. She really liked the Altman’s best of all. But this afternoon she had to decline their offer. Liz offers to come with her but she says she has to do it on her own. Elizabeth offers that if she needs someone to talk to later call her. Elizabeth and Jessica get into an argument because Elizabeth didn’t appreciate her changing what she wrote. But Mary has a talk with her and says that Jessica was just being Jessica. She tells Liz that by the end of the term, Social Services will make her leave the Altman’s since she declined their offer. Mr.Bowman seems to like Jessica’s version of the Gretchen article, so Liz looks it over and sees that it’s more colorful. So she makes some minor changes and keeps most of what Jessica wrote.
After school Jessica, Mary, Amy, and Liz are supposed to walk home together, but Amy gets detention. Liz stays behind and sees a lady that looks a lot like her mother coming toward her in the parking lot. The lady isn’t but she starts asking a lot of questions about Mary. Liz and Amy let her walk home with them. The lady is full of questions about how Mary is (if she’s happy) and the Altman’s. Liz at first thinks she’s Annie, but then it hits her. It’s Mary’s mother. It turned out that Andrea Robinson had been looking for Mary for seven years, but Annie had changed her name and Mary’s name to Giaco (her family’s name). Andrea is living in a town over. Mary tells Elizabeth that she doesn’t want to move but she’s scared to tell her mother for fear she’ll seem ungrateful. So Mrs. Wakefield talks to her mother and since Andrea really likes Sweet Valley she agrees to look for an apartment there. The Unicorns cookbook turns out to be a success. Elizabeth buys one for Mr. Bowman because they won the contest. She’s going to buy another for her mother but Mary offers to buy it for her.
My Thoughts:
I know this is gonna sound weird but I usually don’t sympathize with Jessica but here.. See I know all to weel how it feels when someone outside your family starts hanging around your mother a lot and how CREEPY that is. There’s this person that’s at her house every time I look up that supposedly doing “work” for her. And somehow, I don’t think she reminds him of the long-lost mother that he got kidnapped from.
Mary definitely went a little bit overboard. People may be nice about you coming to visit them but you just can’t overstay your welcome. I had that happen to a family member. You never want to wear out your welcome and it will happen QUICKLY if you don’t watch it and get to comfortable!
It was touching that Mary found her mom though. That was one of the most memorable parts for me. Annie showing up would have given it a whole other *tone*. I was happy that it all worked out in the end for the Robinsons. It just felt good to show that if you believe in something strongly enough (or someone) your dream just might come true.
As far as Jessica’s rewrite though about Gretchen Tyler I just don’t see how she couldn’t have filled a page and had to include a recipe. We all know how big Jessica is into fashion. You can’t tell me she didn’t have Gretchen’s whole speech memorized (and had this been modern-day recorded on a cell phone) word for word. She probably could have added quotes and thoughts and *everything* to that article.
The only thing I can really criticize is Amy and Elizabeth. Even though this did turn out to be Mary's mom, they definitely didn't know that at first. It could have been Annie and they would have led her right to their house. They gave away WAY too much information to a stranger they'd only met a second ago about this girl with such a troubled past. Then as we learn much later in this series Sweet Valley isn't always just beautiful and beaches. It's kidnapping, psychos, and stalkers.
Rating: 7
June 15, 2024
The 1987 short story “Three’s a Crowd” (Sweet Valley Twins, Number 7) was created by Francine Pascal and written by Jamie Suzanne. The short story book is about two sixth grade 11 year old twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, their friendship with Mary Giaccio (Robertson), the Altamans, and Sweet Valley California Middle School educators. Elizabeth is a talented student and editor of the “Sixers” Sweet Valley Middle School newspaper; and her twin sister Jessica who is a member of the Unicorn sixth grade social club. The middle school “Sixers” newspaper is competing for the Best Los Angles Middle School Newspaper award. The Unicorns club is publishing a book of recipes crafted by famous Southern California celebrities. The recipe book sales fund school dances, social events, and special middle school community activities. While these activities are happening Jessica and Mary Giaccio form a friendship which also involves unique and very intense bonding of Mary with Jessica and Elizabeth’s mother. Everyday Mary spends 2+ hours visiting exclusively with Mrs. Wakefield. These exclusive sessions involve discussions about their mutual interests, shared cooking activities, and discussions about special community and school events. Jessica is overwhelmed by the intensity and frequency of these sessions and her relationship with Mary has become very stressful. Mary is a foster child under the care of a the Altamans who live very near the Wakefields. The short story describes Mary’s kidnapping , how her mother (Mrs. Robertson) finally finds her, and the role Jessica, Elizabeth, and Mrs Wakefield have in helping Mary and her mother overcoming an amazing set of events that caused their 8 year separation. The short story ends with how the Altmans, the Wakefields and Sweet Valley Middle School activities lead to the events that help Mary and her mother recover from their tumultuous and long separation. The short story book is well written, full of surprises, and very thought provoking. (P)
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October 26, 2025One thing you can rely on with a Sweet Valley book is when there's a serious topic to be addressed, everyone involved will make a complete hash of it.
In this volume, Jessica takes issue with fellow Unicorn, Mary Giaccio, coming round her house and helping Mrs Wakefield with the cooking. Mary is "a foster child" (actual phrase used in the book) and goes from calling her foster mother Mrs Altman in one chapter to Nancy in the next. In a highly coincidental twist, it turns out that Mrs Wakefield could be the twin of Mary's real mum, therefore making the fact she wants to spend time with Mrs W perfectly legit. What isn't legit is Mary's Real Mum turning up at Sweet Valley Middle School, randomly finding Elizabeth and then Elizabeth taking her to her house to meet Mary, despite Elizabeth not knowing her from Jimmy Savile and Mary not having a fucking clue. What also isn't legit is Jessica announcing Mary's adoption in the newspaper before even Mary decides what she's doing. Elizabeth also gets a special mention for asking Mary "well, where is she then?" when Mary is crying because she's not seen her Real Mum since she was 4.
In other news, we were doing so well with The New Girl but now we're back to the fat shaming poor old Lois Waller in this one. I swear I never picked up on this the first time round either (tbf I wasn't reading them in order, up to 3 per day back then).
In this volume, Jessica takes issue with fellow Unicorn, Mary Giaccio, coming round her house and helping Mrs Wakefield with the cooking. Mary is "a foster child" (actual phrase used in the book) and goes from calling her foster mother Mrs Altman in one chapter to Nancy in the next. In a highly coincidental twist, it turns out that Mrs Wakefield could be the twin of Mary's real mum, therefore making the fact she wants to spend time with Mrs W perfectly legit. What isn't legit is Mary's Real Mum turning up at Sweet Valley Middle School, randomly finding Elizabeth and then Elizabeth taking her to her house to meet Mary, despite Elizabeth not knowing her from Jimmy Savile and Mary not having a fucking clue. What also isn't legit is Jessica announcing Mary's adoption in the newspaper before even Mary decides what she's doing. Elizabeth also gets a special mention for asking Mary "well, where is she then?" when Mary is crying because she's not seen her Real Mum since she was 4.
In other news, we were doing so well with The New Girl but now we're back to the fat shaming poor old Lois Waller in this one. I swear I never picked up on this the first time round either (tbf I wasn't reading them in order, up to 3 per day back then).
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February 13, 2018
Mary is hogging the twins' mom - which is just weird. Especially when she'd got a perfectly good foster mom at home that loves her. This whole book felt a little weird. Jessica really messed up Elizabeth's newspaper - but it's all OK because Liz needs to loosen up and be more fun in her writing. The celebrity cookbook is a fun and interesting idea - but since when do clubs like the Unicorns (which isn't exactly officially sanctioned by anyone - there's no teacher advisor as far as I can tell) pay for school dances?
Then the mystery of Mary's mother is just too...well let's just say everything comes together a little too easily.Making this one bizarre book.
Really wasn't overfond of this one.
Then the mystery of Mary's mother is just too...well let's just say everything comes together a little too easily.Making this one bizarre book.
Really wasn't overfond of this one.
July 24, 2017
Sweet Valley books are never big on realistic plots, but this one is just all kinds of ridiculous.
August 17, 2020
Elizabeth presses on to seriously succeed with the school newspaper Jessica inadvertently interferes in the process.
Jessica’s friend Mary, from the Unicorn Club, is a foster child with an interesting story that lightly brushes the surface of what happened to put her there.
Elizabeth’s seriousness and Jessica’s high spiritedness come together with journalistic success and a family reunited.
Jessica’s friend Mary, from the Unicorn Club, is a foster child with an interesting story that lightly brushes the surface of what happened to put her there.
Elizabeth’s seriousness and Jessica’s high spiritedness come together with journalistic success and a family reunited.
December 31, 2020
My eBay order didn’t include book 6. And here we have book 7 which is soooo not good. Threes a crowd for sure. Just don’t with this one.. just don’t.
December 28, 2024
Jessica rese tp kdg bermanfaat
May 31, 2022
Sweet Valley Twins 7 - Three’s a crowd
The Unicorns have decided to write to celebrities asking for their favourite recipes go put into a cookbook to raise money! Jess volunteers (Liz) to type up everything on her fancy electric typewriter! Liz the pushover agrees but asks Jess to pose as her and call Mr Bowman to get some info for Career Day. She forgets everything except that her favourite clothing store owner is coming, Gretchen Tyler and has to guess when relaying to Liz. Mary Giaccio is a fellow 🦄 who wants to hang at Jess’s all the time and help Alice, instead of with her old foster parents 😔 Meanwhile, Mr B encourages Liz to submit the latest edition of the Sixers into a big competition. The girls are also throwing him a surprise 27th birthday party after school… 🤨 Janet breaks Liz typewriter right before Liz comes home upset right Jess for messing up the Career Day facts, which she now has one night to fix 😬 But Mary saves the day! Jess is starting to get sick of the attention Mary is paying to Alice (or vice versa?) and tells Liz Mary is not allowed over anymore. Mary is miserable and Jess realises she needs help typing up the cookbook. Mary gifts Jess her bracelet and Jess forgives her… for nothing!! 🤬 Jess and Mary are at the Wakefield’s when Jess spills grape juice all over Liz’s draft for the big paper edition 😖 So they re-write the ruined section to feature the unicorns better. Jess also adds in the news she overheard from her parents about Mary getting adopted! Of course Mary is upset, Liz is furious and Liz gets the whole story, about how Mary is sure her bio mum is looking for her after leaving her at the age of 4 with a coworker who got sick of her and gave her to her foster parents 😬 Liz blows up at Jess about the paper and redoes it for the competition but Mr B likes Jess’s version better 😂 Mary turns down the adoption offer and gets told she has to move on then by Child Services…? Liz is waiting for Amy after school when she sees her mother… or someone almost identical. It’s coincidentally an old family friend, so Liz takes her to Mary (wtf). Of course it’s Mary’s mother, Liz explains everything and the pair are happily reunited! Turns out Mary was kidnapped by Annie and is really Mary Elizabeth Robinson. Mary and her mum stay in SV, the Unicorn cookbook sells out and Liz wins the newspaper contest!
My rating - 5/10 - Jess was awful to Mary, it was predictable, BUT I did tear up when Mary called her Mum ‘Mom’ 🥺.
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The Unicorns have decided to write to celebrities asking for their favourite recipes go put into a cookbook to raise money! Jess volunteers (Liz) to type up everything on her fancy electric typewriter! Liz the pushover agrees but asks Jess to pose as her and call Mr Bowman to get some info for Career Day. She forgets everything except that her favourite clothing store owner is coming, Gretchen Tyler and has to guess when relaying to Liz. Mary Giaccio is a fellow 🦄 who wants to hang at Jess’s all the time and help Alice, instead of with her old foster parents 😔 Meanwhile, Mr B encourages Liz to submit the latest edition of the Sixers into a big competition. The girls are also throwing him a surprise 27th birthday party after school… 🤨 Janet breaks Liz typewriter right before Liz comes home upset right Jess for messing up the Career Day facts, which she now has one night to fix 😬 But Mary saves the day! Jess is starting to get sick of the attention Mary is paying to Alice (or vice versa?) and tells Liz Mary is not allowed over anymore. Mary is miserable and Jess realises she needs help typing up the cookbook. Mary gifts Jess her bracelet and Jess forgives her… for nothing!! 🤬 Jess and Mary are at the Wakefield’s when Jess spills grape juice all over Liz’s draft for the big paper edition 😖 So they re-write the ruined section to feature the unicorns better. Jess also adds in the news she overheard from her parents about Mary getting adopted! Of course Mary is upset, Liz is furious and Liz gets the whole story, about how Mary is sure her bio mum is looking for her after leaving her at the age of 4 with a coworker who got sick of her and gave her to her foster parents 😬 Liz blows up at Jess about the paper and redoes it for the competition but Mr B likes Jess’s version better 😂 Mary turns down the adoption offer and gets told she has to move on then by Child Services…? Liz is waiting for Amy after school when she sees her mother… or someone almost identical. It’s coincidentally an old family friend, so Liz takes her to Mary (wtf). Of course it’s Mary’s mother, Liz explains everything and the pair are happily reunited! Turns out Mary was kidnapped by Annie and is really Mary Elizabeth Robinson. Mary and her mum stay in SV, the Unicorn cookbook sells out and Liz wins the newspaper contest!
My rating - 5/10 - Jess was awful to Mary, it was predictable, BUT I did tear up when Mary called her Mum ‘Mom’ 🥺.
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August 8, 2019
RATING: 4 STARS
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I picked up one of the Sweet Valley Twins novel at the library (before my strict read in order only rule) and fell in love with the California twins and their friends and family. I had just started reading thicker chapter books, and joining the library summer reading club, I went through these books pretty quick. I was excited that I could read and really fell in love with books and reading. I believe I was about 7-9 when I read these books so it was exciting to read about 12 year old popular preteens. I could relate to both Elizabeth and Jessica, and really could not pick which twin I liked better. I would not finish this series as I would quickly move on to Sweet Valley High (Double Love). These are very tame books, and any age could read them. First crushes and bullying were the big issues that I can remember. This is very Full House (TV series) kind of books.
***This is a series review***
(Review Not on Blog)
I picked up one of the Sweet Valley Twins novel at the library (before my strict read in order only rule) and fell in love with the California twins and their friends and family. I had just started reading thicker chapter books, and joining the library summer reading club, I went through these books pretty quick. I was excited that I could read and really fell in love with books and reading. I believe I was about 7-9 when I read these books so it was exciting to read about 12 year old popular preteens. I could relate to both Elizabeth and Jessica, and really could not pick which twin I liked better. I would not finish this series as I would quickly move on to Sweet Valley High (Double Love). These are very tame books, and any age could read them. First crushes and bullying were the big issues that I can remember. This is very Full House (TV series) kind of books.
***This is a series review***
February 10, 2017
Look, I absolutely adore the Sweet Valley entire series. It was a part of my childhood & helped me get through many a difficult time during my school years. Sweet Valley books are like friends & when you rediscover them, it's like a reunion with a much missed friend. A very easy read & I would still recommend to children 10 years & up.
January 17, 2016
There are two themes going in this volume. In One, Elizabeth is working on the school newspaper and the paper is going to be entered in a contest and has a good chance of winning. Jessica, though, messes things up twice with the paper.
The other theme is the girls' friend Mary who lives with a foster parent. Mary is sure here mother, who supposedly had abandoned her, is still looking for her and does not want to be adopted.
The first theme works itself out all right. In the second, the book is covering the real topic of young children being kidnapped and held against their will. This is something that one read's about in the newspaper or online from time to time.
This is another good volume in the series.
The other theme is the girls' friend Mary who lives with a foster parent. Mary is sure here mother, who supposedly had abandoned her, is still looking for her and does not want to be adopted.
The first theme works itself out all right. In the second, the book is covering the real topic of young children being kidnapped and held against their will. This is something that one read's about in the newspaper or online from time to time.
This is another good volume in the series.
November 18, 2015
In this Sweet Valley Twins book Mary Giaccio is always hanging around Mrs. Wakefield. And the twins don't like that at all. Mary has foster parents, but is acting like Mrs. Wakefield is her mom. Then Jessica finds out very private information about Mary's future. I loved this book. It was super relatable. In my opinion it was probably one of the best Sweet Valley Twin books yet.
March 27, 2010
I can not remember much about this book.
I somewhat remember this book, not to well though. I know I was not to impressed with it, it was kind of boring but some of it was okay. I would not realy recommened it but some people might like it. That's it for now.
I somewhat remember this book, not to well though. I know I was not to impressed with it, it was kind of boring but some of it was okay. I would not realy recommened it but some people might like it. That's it for now.
January 3, 2008
I just had to add one of these books, I loved reading them as a young girl, and don't doubt that I would still enjoy them.
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April 28, 2008This was also a good book I love the seris
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June 4, 2009JAR4-Pas
December 15, 2009
it is a emotion book with lots of features
January 4, 2011
It's kind of odd that for the cover of this one, they chose a picture of the climax moment of the book...
July 28, 2011
cute story
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August 29, 2011From "Books I have read this summer" list that I found at home in NJ.
May 6, 2021
Loved these books as a child
June 22, 2013
I remember the cover but just not the story
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August 1, 2013Graded By: Erin
Read the drinking game and review here.
Read the drinking game and review here.
August 7, 2015
This one was a touching story, but tainted by Jessica Wakefield being an insensitive lil shit (again)
May 7, 2015
These were my favorites, along with the Babysitters Club in 5th-6th grade. I think my group of friends and I would take turns reading them and discussing. It was like our first book club!
January 26, 2016
I bought the first one when I was 10 years old, and I'm still collecting them.
I adore the naif and cute stories ♥
I adore the naif and cute stories ♥
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