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Sweet Valley Twins Super Editions #1
The Class Trip
Best friends forever...
It's the Sweet Valley Middle School sixth-grade trip to a fabulous amusement park! Both twins, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, have been waiting for this day for ages. And now that it's here, they're not even talking to each other!
Despite their argument, Elizabeth can't stay angry for long. But when she goes to apologize to Jessica, she is nowhere to be found. As Elizabeth searches for her lost sister, she's caught up in a series of exciting and dangerous adventures as incredible as Alice's trip through Wonderland--adventures that lead the Wakefield twins to discover what real friendship--and sisterhood--is all about.
It's the Sweet Valley Middle School sixth-grade trip to a fabulous amusement park! Both twins, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, have been waiting for this day for ages. And now that it's here, they're not even talking to each other!
Despite their argument, Elizabeth can't stay angry for long. But when she goes to apologize to Jessica, she is nowhere to be found. As Elizabeth searches for her lost sister, she's caught up in a series of exciting and dangerous adventures as incredible as Alice's trip through Wonderland--adventures that lead the Wakefield twins to discover what real friendship--and sisterhood--is all about.
134 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1988
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Francine Pascal
1,140 books1,851 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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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***
May 5, 2019
This was my favorite SVT book back in the day. It was fun to revisit and realize just how much I had forgotten (almost everything—I remembered the amusement park and Tom Sawyer).
March 25, 2022
The Class Trip
Plot: Jessica wakes up Elizabeth excited because it’s the morning of the class trip to the amusement park The Enchanted Forest. Elizabeth tries to remind Jessica of a promise she made, but Jessica avoids her. Jessica promised to sit by Elizabeth on the bus so she won’t have to sit by Caroline. But Jessica (as always) breaks her promise and sits by Lila. Mr.Bowman tells the class they can go off on their own, but they have to meet up by six at the clock tower or they’ll get left. King Abelard’s Castle is Elizabeth, Amy, and Julie’s first choice. Jessica wants to go on the Super Coaster, but Lila is hell-bent on doing the Mirror Maze. Then Lila ditches Jessica for a boy she met at camp to go on the Horror Tunnel. Somehow, Jessica ends up in the line of King Abelard’s Castle and calls out to Elizabeth, but Elizabeth pretends she doesn’t hear her and gets on the ride with her friends. But it’s Elizabeth so she immediately feels guilty when she sees Jessica sitting by herself in the last car.
The attraction is just a ride with scenes going through a medieval castle. Amy and Elizabeth bump head on a scene where an ax swings from the ceiling. A blond girl in the castle reminds Elizabeth of Jessica and she starts to feel guilty again. When the ride ends she looks for Jessica, but she’s gone. Amy and Julie tell her she probably went to the next ride (The Caterpillar Cavern) but she doesn’t see her. When she gets off she sees some of their other classmates, but they haven’t seen Jessica either. Lila tells her she might be at the Super Coaster so Liz heads in that direction. Amy and Julie stay to go on Blind Man’s Bluff. When she gets to the Super Coaster she doesn’t see her there either. So she has this thought that maybe she never left the castle and that she could have fallen out of the boat. When she gets back to the castle, no attendants are there and no boats. She finds a rowboat and a door in the side of the castle. So she enters the door and starts down a long tunnel.
Elizabeth falls down an incline, knocks over a cask, and frees Princess Charity. Princess Charity says she hears “them” and they need to run. Elizabeth hears swords clashing and thinks it’s just the ride’s knights. But Charity says they’re King Nestor’s knights and they’ve already captured her parents and brothers and put them in caves. Elizabeth takes in the girl’s clothes and wonders is she an actress, but then comes to the conclusion that she’s real when she sees a cut on her hand (bleeding). Charity pulls her into a barrel as they hear orders to find Charity in the storeroom by Prince Kendrick. Charity says that if they catch her she’ll be their slave and then be forced to marry Kendrick. So Elizabeth says they’ll just have to free her family and their weapons. She’ll find a way to distract the guards by the cages where the weapons are. Elizabeth realizes Charity has never seen a camera, when it scares her (thinking she’s blinded). So she comes up with a plan that Charity will rescue her family while Liz distracts the knights with her camera’s flash. Only while she’s standing there a donkey appears from nowhere. This gets their attention. Then she tries to fool then when enough time has passed for Charity to free her family. Liz’s trick doesn’t work on Kendrick, but before he can capture her, she’s rescued by one of the King’s men. Eventually, they all put the evil knights in the cage.
The King thanks Liz, but wonders how she escaped. Liz figures that he must mean Jess and asks where she was taken. He says he heard Nestor took her to his kingdom. And that he knows a boy with a raft that can take her there. The boy turns out to be Tom Sawyer. On the way there, he tells her about Huck, Mary, Becky, and some of his adventures. When they get there they follow a girl’s scream to a tunnel, but after a scare from a bat, the tunnel starts to collapse. Water starts to rise in the cave. Tom tries to knock the top rock down to cause the rocks to shift and not block the entrance. A mouse helps chew the grass blade that has the rock slide stuck and causes the rocks to fall. Tom tells Liz before he saw a rope and thinks the cave was rigged by King Nestor. The rock slide causes Liz and Tom to be separated on different sides of a wall. Since Tom is close to the exit Liz tells him to go on without her. She two finds an exit. Outside, she meets the mouse (whose name is Allegra) that helped in the cave. Allegra helps her walk up a path of moonbeams as they race to find Jessica. When they do find Jessica, she’s a slave in a rock pit. Elizabeth finds herself soon shackled too. The Queen of Drudgery makes everyone crush rocks to cover everything that has color. Jessica says she doesn’t know what Elizabeth came for her and that she should have just left her, but Elizabeth says she loves her and that’s what u do when you love someone. The Queen approaches and Elizabeth tries to resist the shovel that appears in her hand (by throwing it at the Queen), but the magic is too strong. When it looks like all hope is lost a limo flies down from the sky and Johnny Buck gets out. The Queen decides she wants Johnny as a slave also and shackles him, but the power of his voice (singing) frees everyone. Unfortunately, the Queen takes Jessica and disappears through a door that sprouts wings. Johnny’s flying limo is able to get them to Jessica and his voice makes the Queen lose her grip on Jessica. Liz tells Jessica to jump but as she does she’s snatched up by a witch. Liz leaning too far off the limo’s wing (trying to catch Jess) starts to fall.
Elizabeth falls into the Enchanted Sea and meets a sea serpent named Sidney. He tells her the witch’s name is Griselda and she’ lives in Sorrowland. Liz crosses the paths of a handful of fairy tale characters whose lives Grisolda has ruined until she gets to a house where Hansel and Gretal have been turned into furniture. They guide her to a nearby gingerbread house. Liz is tempted by the delicious-looking house but remembers Hansel’s story (eating the house was the reason they were turned into furniture). Liz finds Jess in the stove. Grisolda was going to eat her, but the stove was broken so she ordered pizza. Before they can escape Jessica can’t resist eating some of the window and Grisolda pops out the closet. Elizabeth tells her off but then starts begging for mercy. Since Elizabeth says they have to be together they literally get joined together. They start to argue over whose fault it is, but decide it’s the fact that they’re together that counts. With the help of Alegra (who runs up Jess’s leg) they discover that laughter is Grisolda’s weakness. She cracks and shatters into pieces. The characters are all restored, their magic comes back, and the land once more has color. The townspeople give them a magic boat to get back home, but as the boat floats it starts to head for a rock wall. Elizabeth wakes up with Jessica standing over her. It turns out when she and Amy bumped heads on the ride she lost consciousness. It’s suggested she go to the nurse but she says she’s fine. When passing the Famer in the Dell ride, the mouse calls her name and waves.
My Thoughts: If I was the author of a series and I said ok I need a plot about a group of middle school students going on a class trip to an amusement park and a ghostwriter had turned this in to me, I would have laughed out loud like “ARE YOU SERIOUS?” and asked had they been drinking or smoking before they wrote it (Both). Then I would have said "No what is this? Seriously I need you to do this over and turn it back in to me when you *really* finish it." This was like something someone tried to throw together at the last second with a day to turn it in to have published. Because NO WAY would I have had this published in my name! Because this was SO SCATTER SHOT and ALL OVER THE DANG PLACE. It was like someone regurgitated a bunch of fairy tales and what came up and out was this plot. First of all, I’ve taken class trips and the teachers don’t just like the students wander through an AMUSEMENT PARK BY THEMSELVES! Secondly did this not sound like *the* lamest park in creation. I can create better attractions than these. I HAVE created better attractions than these. Then Elizabeth spends the WHOLE book feeling guilty over something JESSICA did (Sadly though I know what this is like). But I was happy to see Jessica get ditches almost immediately by Lila when they got to the park. So payback kinda just happened without Elizabeth needing to do or say anything. When I first read this book SO LONG AGO, I can’t believe I didn’t see that this was all a dream. Now it’s *so* obvious that by the time Elizabeth meet Princess Charity that it was. How could I ever think anything less? But this wasn’t good. There was tons of action but it just for me was very flat. Guess I’m jut not into the fantasy dreams of 12-year-olds and imaginary fairy tale parks.
Rating: 3
Plot: Jessica wakes up Elizabeth excited because it’s the morning of the class trip to the amusement park The Enchanted Forest. Elizabeth tries to remind Jessica of a promise she made, but Jessica avoids her. Jessica promised to sit by Elizabeth on the bus so she won’t have to sit by Caroline. But Jessica (as always) breaks her promise and sits by Lila. Mr.Bowman tells the class they can go off on their own, but they have to meet up by six at the clock tower or they’ll get left. King Abelard’s Castle is Elizabeth, Amy, and Julie’s first choice. Jessica wants to go on the Super Coaster, but Lila is hell-bent on doing the Mirror Maze. Then Lila ditches Jessica for a boy she met at camp to go on the Horror Tunnel. Somehow, Jessica ends up in the line of King Abelard’s Castle and calls out to Elizabeth, but Elizabeth pretends she doesn’t hear her and gets on the ride with her friends. But it’s Elizabeth so she immediately feels guilty when she sees Jessica sitting by herself in the last car.
The attraction is just a ride with scenes going through a medieval castle. Amy and Elizabeth bump head on a scene where an ax swings from the ceiling. A blond girl in the castle reminds Elizabeth of Jessica and she starts to feel guilty again. When the ride ends she looks for Jessica, but she’s gone. Amy and Julie tell her she probably went to the next ride (The Caterpillar Cavern) but she doesn’t see her. When she gets off she sees some of their other classmates, but they haven’t seen Jessica either. Lila tells her she might be at the Super Coaster so Liz heads in that direction. Amy and Julie stay to go on Blind Man’s Bluff. When she gets to the Super Coaster she doesn’t see her there either. So she has this thought that maybe she never left the castle and that she could have fallen out of the boat. When she gets back to the castle, no attendants are there and no boats. She finds a rowboat and a door in the side of the castle. So she enters the door and starts down a long tunnel.
Elizabeth falls down an incline, knocks over a cask, and frees Princess Charity. Princess Charity says she hears “them” and they need to run. Elizabeth hears swords clashing and thinks it’s just the ride’s knights. But Charity says they’re King Nestor’s knights and they’ve already captured her parents and brothers and put them in caves. Elizabeth takes in the girl’s clothes and wonders is she an actress, but then comes to the conclusion that she’s real when she sees a cut on her hand (bleeding). Charity pulls her into a barrel as they hear orders to find Charity in the storeroom by Prince Kendrick. Charity says that if they catch her she’ll be their slave and then be forced to marry Kendrick. So Elizabeth says they’ll just have to free her family and their weapons. She’ll find a way to distract the guards by the cages where the weapons are. Elizabeth realizes Charity has never seen a camera, when it scares her (thinking she’s blinded). So she comes up with a plan that Charity will rescue her family while Liz distracts the knights with her camera’s flash. Only while she’s standing there a donkey appears from nowhere. This gets their attention. Then she tries to fool then when enough time has passed for Charity to free her family. Liz’s trick doesn’t work on Kendrick, but before he can capture her, she’s rescued by one of the King’s men. Eventually, they all put the evil knights in the cage.
The King thanks Liz, but wonders how she escaped. Liz figures that he must mean Jess and asks where she was taken. He says he heard Nestor took her to his kingdom. And that he knows a boy with a raft that can take her there. The boy turns out to be Tom Sawyer. On the way there, he tells her about Huck, Mary, Becky, and some of his adventures. When they get there they follow a girl’s scream to a tunnel, but after a scare from a bat, the tunnel starts to collapse. Water starts to rise in the cave. Tom tries to knock the top rock down to cause the rocks to shift and not block the entrance. A mouse helps chew the grass blade that has the rock slide stuck and causes the rocks to fall. Tom tells Liz before he saw a rope and thinks the cave was rigged by King Nestor. The rock slide causes Liz and Tom to be separated on different sides of a wall. Since Tom is close to the exit Liz tells him to go on without her. She two finds an exit. Outside, she meets the mouse (whose name is Allegra) that helped in the cave. Allegra helps her walk up a path of moonbeams as they race to find Jessica. When they do find Jessica, she’s a slave in a rock pit. Elizabeth finds herself soon shackled too. The Queen of Drudgery makes everyone crush rocks to cover everything that has color. Jessica says she doesn’t know what Elizabeth came for her and that she should have just left her, but Elizabeth says she loves her and that’s what u do when you love someone. The Queen approaches and Elizabeth tries to resist the shovel that appears in her hand (by throwing it at the Queen), but the magic is too strong. When it looks like all hope is lost a limo flies down from the sky and Johnny Buck gets out. The Queen decides she wants Johnny as a slave also and shackles him, but the power of his voice (singing) frees everyone. Unfortunately, the Queen takes Jessica and disappears through a door that sprouts wings. Johnny’s flying limo is able to get them to Jessica and his voice makes the Queen lose her grip on Jessica. Liz tells Jessica to jump but as she does she’s snatched up by a witch. Liz leaning too far off the limo’s wing (trying to catch Jess) starts to fall.
Elizabeth falls into the Enchanted Sea and meets a sea serpent named Sidney. He tells her the witch’s name is Griselda and she’ lives in Sorrowland. Liz crosses the paths of a handful of fairy tale characters whose lives Grisolda has ruined until she gets to a house where Hansel and Gretal have been turned into furniture. They guide her to a nearby gingerbread house. Liz is tempted by the delicious-looking house but remembers Hansel’s story (eating the house was the reason they were turned into furniture). Liz finds Jess in the stove. Grisolda was going to eat her, but the stove was broken so she ordered pizza. Before they can escape Jessica can’t resist eating some of the window and Grisolda pops out the closet. Elizabeth tells her off but then starts begging for mercy. Since Elizabeth says they have to be together they literally get joined together. They start to argue over whose fault it is, but decide it’s the fact that they’re together that counts. With the help of Alegra (who runs up Jess’s leg) they discover that laughter is Grisolda’s weakness. She cracks and shatters into pieces. The characters are all restored, their magic comes back, and the land once more has color. The townspeople give them a magic boat to get back home, but as the boat floats it starts to head for a rock wall. Elizabeth wakes up with Jessica standing over her. It turns out when she and Amy bumped heads on the ride she lost consciousness. It’s suggested she go to the nurse but she says she’s fine. When passing the Famer in the Dell ride, the mouse calls her name and waves.
My Thoughts: If I was the author of a series and I said ok I need a plot about a group of middle school students going on a class trip to an amusement park and a ghostwriter had turned this in to me, I would have laughed out loud like “ARE YOU SERIOUS?” and asked had they been drinking or smoking before they wrote it (Both). Then I would have said "No what is this? Seriously I need you to do this over and turn it back in to me when you *really* finish it." This was like something someone tried to throw together at the last second with a day to turn it in to have published. Because NO WAY would I have had this published in my name! Because this was SO SCATTER SHOT and ALL OVER THE DANG PLACE. It was like someone regurgitated a bunch of fairy tales and what came up and out was this plot. First of all, I’ve taken class trips and the teachers don’t just like the students wander through an AMUSEMENT PARK BY THEMSELVES! Secondly did this not sound like *the* lamest park in creation. I can create better attractions than these. I HAVE created better attractions than these. Then Elizabeth spends the WHOLE book feeling guilty over something JESSICA did (Sadly though I know what this is like). But I was happy to see Jessica get ditches almost immediately by Lila when they got to the park. So payback kinda just happened without Elizabeth needing to do or say anything. When I first read this book SO LONG AGO, I can’t believe I didn’t see that this was all a dream. Now it’s *so* obvious that by the time Elizabeth meet Princess Charity that it was. How could I ever think anything less? But this wasn’t good. There was tons of action but it just for me was very flat. Guess I’m jut not into the fantasy dreams of 12-year-olds and imaginary fairy tale parks.
Rating: 3
March 13, 2015
This is one of my all time favorite Sweet Valley books. Basically a take on Alice and Wonderland.
November 4, 2018
3.5 stars
This one was actually not bad. The sixth graders go on a class trip to the 'Enchanted Forest' amusement park - which sounded pretty awesome by the way - and Liz (while being her usual dormat self and can't help but suck up Jessica's ass) finds herself on a magical adventure with fairy tale and mythical characters.
It was an entertaining read though and was nice to have a little fantasy weaved into the story for a change.
Also... I know the Wakefield parents are bad... but by god... the teachers!!
"Listen up, everyone. We'll meet at the clock tower near the front entrance at six o'clock sharp. Its up to you. If you're not there at six, you'll have a long walk home."
I thought Mr Bowman was one of the good ones? Who lets 12 year old kids wander around aimlessly for 8 hours without any supervision and leave without them if they don't turn up? Seriously.... I know this is the 80's but really, Sweet Valley?
Moral of the story.. if your sister doesn't sit with you on the bus, it's the end of the world.
This one was actually not bad. The sixth graders go on a class trip to the 'Enchanted Forest' amusement park - which sounded pretty awesome by the way - and Liz (while being her usual dormat self and can't help but suck up Jessica's ass) finds herself on a magical adventure with fairy tale and mythical characters.
It was an entertaining read though and was nice to have a little fantasy weaved into the story for a change.
Also... I know the Wakefield parents are bad... but by god... the teachers!!
"Listen up, everyone. We'll meet at the clock tower near the front entrance at six o'clock sharp. Its up to you. If you're not there at six, you'll have a long walk home."
I thought Mr Bowman was one of the good ones? Who lets 12 year old kids wander around aimlessly for 8 hours without any supervision and leave without them if they don't turn up? Seriously.... I know this is the 80's but really, Sweet Valley?
Moral of the story.. if your sister doesn't sit with you on the bus, it's the end of the world.
April 11, 2022
Bro. This was quite possibly one of the weirdest books I’ve ever read. Review to come.
I don’t even know where to begin on describing this book to you. It wasn’t bad, just made me feel like I was either
A) in suessland at universal
Or b) doing drugs (psychedelics)
Anyways. Basically the whole reason Elizabeth had that big dream was because she and Jessica were sort of in a fight- and she and Amy bumped heads sooooo bad to where she passed out? Weird but anyways.
I won’t run down the whole dream to you, because I can’t remember all of it, but the weirdest part was when Johnny Buck showed up and started singing the bad magic away. I couldn’t stop laughing because it was genuinely so bizzare and I didn’t even know what was happening at that point.
Anyways. That’s really all I have to say about this one. (I forgot how much fun reviewing books is, that is why you have probably seen an influx (is that the word?) of reviews from me this year. This is due to the fact that we found my old goodreads account and I review literally every single book I read, but I won’t bore you with the details.)
I don’t even know where to begin on describing this book to you. It wasn’t bad, just made me feel like I was either
A) in suessland at universal
Or b) doing drugs (psychedelics)
Anyways. Basically the whole reason Elizabeth had that big dream was because she and Jessica were sort of in a fight- and she and Amy bumped heads sooooo bad to where she passed out? Weird but anyways.
I won’t run down the whole dream to you, because I can’t remember all of it, but the weirdest part was when Johnny Buck showed up and started singing the bad magic away. I couldn’t stop laughing because it was genuinely so bizzare and I didn’t even know what was happening at that point.
Anyways. That’s really all I have to say about this one. (I forgot how much fun reviewing books is, that is why you have probably seen an influx (is that the word?) of reviews from me this year. This is due to the fact that we found my old goodreads account and I review literally every single book I read, but I won’t bore you with the details.)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 2, 2013
(I'm not going to use the usual template for this one, since this was the first Super Special. The Super Chillers and Super Specials play by different rules.)
Super Short Synopsis: First of all, this class trip is to the Enchanted Forest theme park in California (except it's actually a theme park in Oregon. FAIL ghostwriters). Now, normally I agree with Liz when she's pissed at Jess. But her reasons for being butt hurt in this one are totally whack. Basically the whole set-up for Liz having to "learn her lesson" about loving her sister is only because Liz is mad that Jessica sat with Lila on the bus. Liz is forced to sit with gossip Caroline Pearce. That is honestly the ONLY reason they are "fighting." It's the most petty and ridiculous thing I have ever heard about. Liz just needs to suck her shit up. But she claims she can't get over Jessica's "betrayal" (funny, she didn't seem too hurt when her sister, you know, framed her for MANSLAUGHTER). When Jess wants to hang out and ride some rides with Elizabeth, she refuses yet still feels guilty. Stuff it, Liz. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Amy and Liz get on a ride and are a little freaked out and end up bumping heads towards the end. So start's A-Liz's adventures in wonderland. They go a little something like this:
1. Liz helps Princess Charity rescue her family from the evil King Nestor. But then she hears that Nestor has taken Jessica, so she realizes her adventures are just beginning. She is searching for Jessica because she had resolved to apologize to her right before she bumped her head.
2. As she heads off to find King Nestor she runs into Tom Sawyer who leads her into a cavern (so what else is new)? They get trapped by rocks but a tiny mouse eats some moss in the way and Liz is able to find her way out sans Tom. She realizes that the mouse, Allegra, can speak, and Allegra tells her to ...
3. Climb moonbeams. So she "runs" up the moonbeam in front of her with Allegra in her pocket, only to find Jessica has become a slave to the Queen of Drudgery. Normally I would say Jessica deserves this kind of torment, but I don't really think so in this case. Elizabeth quickly becomes enslaved to chipping rocks too, until...
4. Johnny Buck shows up to save the day. He sings and sings and is able to destroy the Queen of Drudgery's hold on her slaves... but not before her sister, Witch Grisolda, runs off with Jessica. Johnny flies off in his magical limo to help save Jessica until...
5. Elizabeth falls from the limo and lands in the ocean with Allegra where, yes, they both can talk. They meet the mostly-vegetarian sea-serpent Sidney, and Liz plays a game of checkers with him to keep him occupied. He then tells Liz and Allegra how to get to Sorrowland, home of Grisolda, so that Liz can save her sister.
6. She and Allegra arrive in Sorrowland and are greeted by none other than Accountant Peter Pan, Giant Thumbelina, Old and Hairless Rapunzel, and Wooden Chairs Hansel and Gretel. They make it to Grisolda's cottage, which is covered in candy. Liz thinks of eating it, but she quickly decides against it. They get in and find Jess in the stove, who claims that the witch wasn't really going to eat her - she ordered pizza instead and refused to give Jessica any. What? So now Jessica is starving and decides to eat a piece of gingerbread from the cottage. Oh, come on, Jess. You know how this ended for Hansel and Gretel. So Grisolda appears and binds the twins together literally. They fight for a minute until they realize that laughter is the only way to kill the witch. The twins and the fairy tale characters are saved, and Allegra puts the twins back in a boat to their home. And then...
7. Liz wakes up, realizes she hit her head, makes up with Jess, and even agrees to ride the Super Coaster with her. "Allegra" says good-bye as everyone exits the park. Jolly good LSD times!
Alternate Title : "A-Liz's Adventures in Fairy Tale Land"
Tagline: "Finally, it's the day for their big adventure!" (Kinda misleading, it's actually Elizabeth's big adventure...)
Lingering Questions: Who exactly wrote this thing?
Cover: Good or Bad? Bad, I mean, I mean it's not even what they wear in the book! Liz wears white pants and a blue top, while Jess wears a green jumpsuit (I approve) with her hair in soft waves. So what's with the purple and pink and extra kids on the cover?
Fantabulous Quotes (With Commentary): "She jumped out of bed and reached for her blue robe."
What kid wears a robe in the morning? Is Elizabeth 70 years old?
"She'd heard that the brand new Super Coaster was ten stories tall, and that the cars moved at over one hundred miles an hour."
Please, that's not even humanly possible. Someone would get killed. Especially kids.
"It's about time Jessica had a dose of her own medicine. I'm not going to forgive her so quickly this time. She simply had to learn not to treat other people so thoughtlessly."
She does need to learn that, Lizzie, but she will NEVER learn it from you.
"'You look beautiful. You have hair like spun gold, and eyes the color of a rushing river.'"
This said to Elizabeth from Tom Sawyer. Take note: not even FICTIONAL CHARACTERS can resist a Wakefield twin.
And then this:
Elizabeth: I'll never forget meeting you.
Tom Sawyer: Me neither. And you're lots prettier than Becky Thatcher.
Barf. Barf. Barf.
"'Hasn't anyone ever told you you should always try three impossible things before breakfast?'"
Hasn't anyone told Francine not to fuck with copyrighted material?
Moral of the Story: Bumping your head will always lead to strange adventures in the mind.
Final Rating: Three stars. They went to a theme park!
Super Short Synopsis: First of all, this class trip is to the Enchanted Forest theme park in California (except it's actually a theme park in Oregon. FAIL ghostwriters). Now, normally I agree with Liz when she's pissed at Jess. But her reasons for being butt hurt in this one are totally whack. Basically the whole set-up for Liz having to "learn her lesson" about loving her sister is only because Liz is mad that Jessica sat with Lila on the bus. Liz is forced to sit with gossip Caroline Pearce. That is honestly the ONLY reason they are "fighting." It's the most petty and ridiculous thing I have ever heard about. Liz just needs to suck her shit up. But she claims she can't get over Jessica's "betrayal" (funny, she didn't seem too hurt when her sister, you know, framed her for MANSLAUGHTER). When Jess wants to hang out and ride some rides with Elizabeth, she refuses yet still feels guilty. Stuff it, Liz. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Amy and Liz get on a ride and are a little freaked out and end up bumping heads towards the end. So start's A-Liz's adventures in wonderland. They go a little something like this:
1. Liz helps Princess Charity rescue her family from the evil King Nestor. But then she hears that Nestor has taken Jessica, so she realizes her adventures are just beginning. She is searching for Jessica because she had resolved to apologize to her right before she bumped her head.
2. As she heads off to find King Nestor she runs into Tom Sawyer who leads her into a cavern (so what else is new)? They get trapped by rocks but a tiny mouse eats some moss in the way and Liz is able to find her way out sans Tom. She realizes that the mouse, Allegra, can speak, and Allegra tells her to ...
3. Climb moonbeams. So she "runs" up the moonbeam in front of her with Allegra in her pocket, only to find Jessica has become a slave to the Queen of Drudgery. Normally I would say Jessica deserves this kind of torment, but I don't really think so in this case. Elizabeth quickly becomes enslaved to chipping rocks too, until...
4. Johnny Buck shows up to save the day. He sings and sings and is able to destroy the Queen of Drudgery's hold on her slaves... but not before her sister, Witch Grisolda, runs off with Jessica. Johnny flies off in his magical limo to help save Jessica until...
5. Elizabeth falls from the limo and lands in the ocean with Allegra where, yes, they both can talk. They meet the mostly-vegetarian sea-serpent Sidney, and Liz plays a game of checkers with him to keep him occupied. He then tells Liz and Allegra how to get to Sorrowland, home of Grisolda, so that Liz can save her sister.
6. She and Allegra arrive in Sorrowland and are greeted by none other than Accountant Peter Pan, Giant Thumbelina, Old and Hairless Rapunzel, and Wooden Chairs Hansel and Gretel. They make it to Grisolda's cottage, which is covered in candy. Liz thinks of eating it, but she quickly decides against it. They get in and find Jess in the stove, who claims that the witch wasn't really going to eat her - she ordered pizza instead and refused to give Jessica any. What? So now Jessica is starving and decides to eat a piece of gingerbread from the cottage. Oh, come on, Jess. You know how this ended for Hansel and Gretel. So Grisolda appears and binds the twins together literally. They fight for a minute until they realize that laughter is the only way to kill the witch. The twins and the fairy tale characters are saved, and Allegra puts the twins back in a boat to their home. And then...
7. Liz wakes up, realizes she hit her head, makes up with Jess, and even agrees to ride the Super Coaster with her. "Allegra" says good-bye as everyone exits the park. Jolly good LSD times!
Alternate Title : "A-Liz's Adventures in Fairy Tale Land"
Tagline: "Finally, it's the day for their big adventure!" (Kinda misleading, it's actually Elizabeth's big adventure...)
Lingering Questions: Who exactly wrote this thing?
Cover: Good or Bad? Bad, I mean, I mean it's not even what they wear in the book! Liz wears white pants and a blue top, while Jess wears a green jumpsuit (I approve) with her hair in soft waves. So what's with the purple and pink and extra kids on the cover?
Fantabulous Quotes (With Commentary): "She jumped out of bed and reached for her blue robe."
What kid wears a robe in the morning? Is Elizabeth 70 years old?
"She'd heard that the brand new Super Coaster was ten stories tall, and that the cars moved at over one hundred miles an hour."
Please, that's not even humanly possible. Someone would get killed. Especially kids.
"It's about time Jessica had a dose of her own medicine. I'm not going to forgive her so quickly this time. She simply had to learn not to treat other people so thoughtlessly."
She does need to learn that, Lizzie, but she will NEVER learn it from you.
"'You look beautiful. You have hair like spun gold, and eyes the color of a rushing river.'"
This said to Elizabeth from Tom Sawyer. Take note: not even FICTIONAL CHARACTERS can resist a Wakefield twin.
And then this:
Elizabeth: I'll never forget meeting you.
Tom Sawyer: Me neither. And you're lots prettier than Becky Thatcher.
Barf. Barf. Barf.
"'Hasn't anyone ever told you you should always try three impossible things before breakfast?'"
Hasn't anyone told Francine not to fuck with copyrighted material?
Moral of the Story: Bumping your head will always lead to strange adventures in the mind.
Final Rating: Three stars. They went to a theme park!
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December 17, 2025Remember when you were maybe 8 years old in English class, and you had to write a story. You came up with THE most fantastic banal tale which ended with something like "and then I woke up". This book is that. But it got published.
Elizabeth and Jessica and their class go to a theme park for a school trip. Elizabeth and Amy bump heads on a ride and suddenly Elizabeth meets Tom Sawyer, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel. I wish I was making this up. I actually had to resort to skim reading because it was that bad. I can only assume the ghostwriter, dizzy with the success of writing the first 20 books of the series, had invested her commission money into a boat load of hallucinogenic drugs.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the shittiest Sweet Valley book I've ever read. By miles.
Elizabeth and Jessica and their class go to a theme park for a school trip. Elizabeth and Amy bump heads on a ride and suddenly Elizabeth meets Tom Sawyer, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel. I wish I was making this up. I actually had to resort to skim reading because it was that bad. I can only assume the ghostwriter, dizzy with the success of writing the first 20 books of the series, had invested her commission money into a boat load of hallucinogenic drugs.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the shittiest Sweet Valley book I've ever read. By miles.
July 11, 2020
Definitely not my favourite Sweet Valley Twins book, what the hell was going on? Halfway through the book and I was quite bored but it maybe because this is my 8th book for the day in an attempt to get back on top of my reading challenge and I'm sleepy. This fantasy version of SVT doesn't appeal to me but it's nice that Elizabeth kinda stood up for herself in the start, we all know she lets Jessica walk all over her and gets rewarded for it.
January 6, 2023
I recently reread this one and it instantly took me back. Elizabeth entering this crazy alice in wonderland gobbledegook of a fever dream. I felt anxious for her all over again. This is definitely a fun romp of a ride. And the ending is adorable. A very fun adventure with the cutest twins in Sweet Valley.
I was (am) mostly a Jessica; what with my passion for fashion and purple being my favorite color. Though, I love reading and writing like Elizabeth. And you?
I was (am) mostly a Jessica; what with my passion for fashion and purple being my favorite color. Though, I love reading and writing like Elizabeth. And you?
August 3, 2017
There's no way I ever read this one as a kid, because I would have remembered this insane plot! This was the weirdest, trippiest Sweet Valley book ever - and I loved it. Also, I want to visit that amusement park.
May 24, 2024
Elizabeth trips out during her class trip, getting trapped in a cave with Tom Sawyer and having a heroic mouse sidekick for other adventures including meeting Hansel and Gretal. Two stars for having very little to actually do with a class trip and for the acid trip writing from the ghost writer.
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October 17, 2019
My daughter wanted me to read this one. It was fun to be friends Elizabeth and Jessica again. The book was different than most of the books but you’ll probably guess the ending by about page 10.
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June 1, 2021Very good but not my fav
August 18, 2023
Sweet Valley Twins Super Edition 1 - The Class Trip
I’ve never liked this book. But let’s see if it’s better this time 😬
The sixth grade is going to the Enchanted Forest. A bus buddy miscommunication means Jess and Liz aren’t talking. Liz and Jess go on it’s a small world (oh sorry, the EF rip off version) separately and Liz is filled with guilt over Jess being alone. Then she bumps heads with Amy and it’s all downhill from here. Liz thinks Jess is missing, and decides to find her. She runs into Princess Charity, who’s on the run from a rival King who has taken her family. Liz distracts their captors with her camera flash, and PCs family is freed. But apparently Jess has been taken by the evil King. Liz gets a lift from Tom Sawyer on his raft, then goes with a talking mouse named Allegra up into the clouds, following Jess and her kidnapper. They find her chained up and using a pick to break rocks. They’re chained by magic by the Queen of Drudgery and Liz gets caught too but a flying limo with Johnny Buck singing saves the day - only Jess gets taken again. She jumps to safety but is caught by a flying witch. Liz falls from the limo into the water - where she runs into a talking sea serpent who directs her to the witch (after a game of checkers). Out of the water and into Sorrowland, Liz runs into Rapunzel, Thumbellina and an accountant Peter Pan, the White Rabbit and Hansel and Gretal as furniture. Liz finds Jess but the witch catches them eating her house, and turns them into Siamese Twins. The twins make up and the mouse makes Jess laugh and the witch is destroyed. On their way home everything goes dark and - oh it was all an unconscious dream of Liz’s when she knocked heads with Amy. The girls really make up and no one makes Liz get medical attention. On their way out, a mouse says ‘bye Elizabeth!’ And it’s Allegra.
My rating - 2/10 - Okay so it wasn’t as bad as I remembered, although it was ridiculous and full of plot holes 🤦🏼♀️. (Also outfit descriptions do not match the cover!)
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I’ve never liked this book. But let’s see if it’s better this time 😬
The sixth grade is going to the Enchanted Forest. A bus buddy miscommunication means Jess and Liz aren’t talking. Liz and Jess go on it’s a small world (oh sorry, the EF rip off version) separately and Liz is filled with guilt over Jess being alone. Then she bumps heads with Amy and it’s all downhill from here. Liz thinks Jess is missing, and decides to find her. She runs into Princess Charity, who’s on the run from a rival King who has taken her family. Liz distracts their captors with her camera flash, and PCs family is freed. But apparently Jess has been taken by the evil King. Liz gets a lift from Tom Sawyer on his raft, then goes with a talking mouse named Allegra up into the clouds, following Jess and her kidnapper. They find her chained up and using a pick to break rocks. They’re chained by magic by the Queen of Drudgery and Liz gets caught too but a flying limo with Johnny Buck singing saves the day - only Jess gets taken again. She jumps to safety but is caught by a flying witch. Liz falls from the limo into the water - where she runs into a talking sea serpent who directs her to the witch (after a game of checkers). Out of the water and into Sorrowland, Liz runs into Rapunzel, Thumbellina and an accountant Peter Pan, the White Rabbit and Hansel and Gretal as furniture. Liz finds Jess but the witch catches them eating her house, and turns them into Siamese Twins. The twins make up and the mouse makes Jess laugh and the witch is destroyed. On their way home everything goes dark and - oh it was all an unconscious dream of Liz’s when she knocked heads with Amy. The girls really make up and no one makes Liz get medical attention. On their way out, a mouse says ‘bye Elizabeth!’ And it’s Allegra.
My rating - 2/10 - Okay so it wasn’t as bad as I remembered, although it was ridiculous and full of plot holes 🤦🏼♀️. (Also outfit descriptions do not match the cover!)
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December 31, 2017
I'm not a fan of Alice in Wonderland re-tellings that aren't done well, and so when the Wakefield Twins visit a theme park with some very fairy-tale rides, you kind of see what's coming from a long way off - especially when you see that Elizabeth and Jessica are fighting. Again.
Sibling rivalry aside, I'm starting to wish that Elizabeth would quit being so sister-dependent. When Jessica won't ride with her on the bus, it's the end of the world. Then later in the theme park, she's not able to enjoy herself at all, she's so worried about mending things with her sister. Give it a rest, Elizabeth!
But there's nothing like traumatic brain injury to make a school outing fun, so when Elizabeth goes through the door marked 'no admittance' and gets a clunk on the head, we venture into the dream realm of wonderland where she must surpass challenges again and again and rescue her overly co-dependent sister once and for all.
What bothers me now as an adult re-reading this series is that she was unconscious for a long time and the powers that be on this class trip just send everybody off to have some fun. Seriously, can someone say lawsuit waiting to happen?
I know, I'm supposed to relax and just let these books be fun, but I really didn't like this one. And that's speaking as someone who has enjoyed reading a good part of this series in the past, back when I worked at B.Dalten bookstore and no one EVER came into the store before noon. I found a lot of time to read back in the shelves.
I'm kind of sorry that I started re-reading the series here. This particular book will hit the giveaway box. I'm just too annoyed to keep it around.
Sibling rivalry aside, I'm starting to wish that Elizabeth would quit being so sister-dependent. When Jessica won't ride with her on the bus, it's the end of the world. Then later in the theme park, she's not able to enjoy herself at all, she's so worried about mending things with her sister. Give it a rest, Elizabeth!
But there's nothing like traumatic brain injury to make a school outing fun, so when Elizabeth goes through the door marked 'no admittance' and gets a clunk on the head, we venture into the dream realm of wonderland where she must surpass challenges again and again and rescue her overly co-dependent sister once and for all.
What bothers me now as an adult re-reading this series is that she was unconscious for a long time and the powers that be on this class trip just send everybody off to have some fun. Seriously, can someone say lawsuit waiting to happen?
I know, I'm supposed to relax and just let these books be fun, but I really didn't like this one. And that's speaking as someone who has enjoyed reading a good part of this series in the past, back when I worked at B.Dalten bookstore and no one EVER came into the store before noon. I found a lot of time to read back in the shelves.
I'm kind of sorry that I started re-reading the series here. This particular book will hit the giveaway box. I'm just too annoyed to keep it around.
July 14, 2011
IT was one of the best Sweet Valley Twins Books I've read! See my review from http://www.claytonpl.org/teens/books/... below:
If you love adventures, you will love "The Class Trip" in the Sweet Valley Twins Series. Elizabeth's journey begins during a class trip to a theme park when she falls down a ditch, trying to find her sister. The ditch leads her to a new world. She does everything from attacking knights, taking boat rides with Tom Sawyer, saving fairy tale characters; including helping Rapunzel get her hair back from a sinister witch, even playing checkers with a sea animal. As she helps these characters, she learns more clues that lead her to her sister. She has to use her courage, strength, and brains to save her sister. Does she have what it takes?
If you love adventures, you will love "The Class Trip" in the Sweet Valley Twins Series. Elizabeth's journey begins during a class trip to a theme park when she falls down a ditch, trying to find her sister. The ditch leads her to a new world. She does everything from attacking knights, taking boat rides with Tom Sawyer, saving fairy tale characters; including helping Rapunzel get her hair back from a sinister witch, even playing checkers with a sea animal. As she helps these characters, she learns more clues that lead her to her sister. She has to use her courage, strength, and brains to save her sister. Does she have what it takes?
February 3, 2016
I read this back when I was in 5th grade. I remember my mom putting me to bed one night, and I decided to read a bit under the covers with a flashlight. It was so good I stayed up and finished the whole book. This book is what started my love of reading. I may go back and read this as an adult to see if it's as magical as it was then.
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October 18, 2022I am really, really not a fan of this trope - you know, someone gets hit on the head, or just has a really vivid dream, and the whole story is actually not taking place at all. I didn't like it as a kid, either, so it's not just my age.
February 14, 2010
This book is SOOOOOOOO cool!!! It is a super edition which makes it super good! Everyone should definitely read it.
April 1, 2011
Hooray! Super edition! Nothing is better than a super edition except for maybe a super thriller! Great stuff.
February 7, 2011
short sentences and lots of words kids can sound out a great beginning reader book. In the reader series it is rated a level 1 and a great addition for learning to read using phonics
May 5, 2021
Loved these books as a child
June 22, 2013
I remember the cover but just not the story
November 18, 2015
A nice, easy read.
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August 29, 2011From "Books I have read this summer" list that I found at home in NJ.
July 22, 2016
Oklar datum.
January 13, 2018
Cute book. Elizabeth blacks out after hitting her head and dreams of characters from different books like Hansel & Gretel, Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer, and more.
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