The Macaroni Mess

Sweet Valley Kids #72

by Francine Pascal, Molly Mia Stewart

In the words of 7-year-old Elizabeth Wakefield...



Our class is having an art show. My painting was the best! It had lots of macaroni pasted on it. But now my macaroni is missing! Who ruined my painting? Time to use my noodle...and find out!

Genres: Childrens, Fiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 1997

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

[Faiza Komal · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Ruvi Perera · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this, kids make exhibits for a school exhibition and Elizabeth makes a pony out of Macaroni, but it gets destroyed mysteriously.

[Kylie · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Sweet Valley Kids 72 - The macaroni mess
It’s art project time! All the kids have to create their own art - whatever they want. Jess makes a crown, Todd draws caricatures (which causes some issues), and Liz makes a macaroni pony. It’s the star project, especially compared to Caroline’s potato doll (imagined and real versions as seen). But when Liz comes back to class, all the macaroni has been pecked off! Caroline is blamed, for being jealous. Liz is very un-Liz like in this book (actually all of the last few). Liz makes another macaroni pony, and hides at lunch to make sure Caroline doesn’t touch it - and yells at her when she does. Then they have a paint fight (🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️) and finally realise that their new class pet parrot was the one who destroyed it! I must admit, I didn’t catch on to that as quickly as normal 😬
My rating - 2/10 - eh. I just don’t love the way so many random things happen in these newer class focused books. The twins are very different too.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember the cover just not the story.