Out of Place

Sweet Valley Twins #22

by Francine Pascal (Creator), Jamie Suzanne

Ginny Lu Culpepper had such high hopes for her life in Sweet Valley. But after just one day of being ridiculed by her new classmates, she's beginning to wish she was back home in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. When Elizabeth Wakefield comes to her rescue. Ginny Lu realizes that being different doesn't have to be bad. In fact, being different makes her quite special. Even Elizabeth's twin sister, Jessica, is willing to help Ginny Lu—especially when it will mean getting herself out of a jam at the same time. But how can the twins convince the other kids to give the new girl a chance?

Genres: Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Contemporary

104 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1988

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

[Christian West · Rating 1 out of 5]

Who the heck would want to live in Sweet Valley? This is the story of how a sappy girl and her psychopathic twin sister help a hick fit in when she moves to town. Although the psychopath only does it for the money. Who thought this was a good idea!? Oh, and the end is so saccharine it was dreadful.

The story showcases two morals.
1) you can't fit in unless you have a special talent, if you don't you're doomed to a life of bring ostracised.
2) instead of owning up to your mistakes, just throw money at them, and that will fix everything.

Tagged as a horse book because there's a horse on the cover (with a girl who looks remarkably similar to the eldest child from Full House, but with a much more patronising smile) and horses feature in a pointless subplot that helps make the entire world good at the end.

[kylajaclyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Super Short Synopsis: So Ginny Lu Culpepper (really. really?) has just flown in to Sweet Valley on her magical horse all the way from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. She dresses weird (i.e. not like the Wakefields), talks weird, and wears her hair in braids. For some reason, Ellen Riteman takes an immediate disliking to Mizz Ginny Lu. She makes fun of her the minute she steps into Mrs. Arnette's classroom. The fact that Ginny comments on Ellen's slip showing doesn't help matters. It's War of the Worlds from that point forward.

The book is mostly Ginny being tormented day after day. Liz's involvement is minimal, and Jessica is off trying to earn money for a new tennis racket for her dad. Ginny is made a fool of at the mall by Lila and Ellen. She seeks solace at the stables, because she loves horses. Ginny takes a liking to Snow White, a beautiful white mare. She also befriends Liz at Carson's Stables. Liz doesn't have the heart to tell Ginny that Snow White belongs to Ellen, but Ellen rushes in to tell Ginny Lu herself. She then taunts Ginny into riding Midnight, a notoriously unreliable horse. Ellen doesn't buckle the saddle properly and Ginny ends up hanging off the horse for dear life.

Liz convinces Ginny that the only way to gain everyone's respect is to display her folk art in the upcoming Arts and Crafts Fair. She is very good at whittling beautiful, tiny dolls. Ginny reluctantly agrees and sets up her display the next day. When the judges come by she recites a poem in the form of a song, but she is humiliated when Bruce, Ellen, Lila, et al. sing the ending for her in a mocking tone. She decides to run away from Sweet Valley until she is rescued by Liz at Carson's Stables.

While there, Ginny realizes that Snow White has finally given birth prematurely. She is the only one who can help the little foal. She coaxes it to feed from its mother. Ellen storms in, once again, instantly outraged but quickly convinced that Ginny Lu is the only one who can help. At the hospital Ellen randomly makes up with Ginny because she saved her horse, and she lets Ginny name the foal. She names him Sooner, since he was premature.

Oh, and Ginny wins the Arts and Crafts Fair!!

Alternate Title
: "That Hick From Tennessee"

Tagline: "Is there room at Sweet Valley for an outsider?" (No. Unless you're the Wakefields or ultra-rich, you're fucked. Especially if you have a dead relative like Ginny Lu.)

On a Scale of 1-10, How Annoying is Elizabeth?
 Eh, 3. Her helping Ginny isn't annoying, but she caves into Jessica's money-making schemes to buy back a racket for her father in less than a minute.

On a Scale of 1-10, How Sociopathic is Jessica? Same, also a 3. She doesn't hate on Ginny only because she needs Ginny's whittling skills to make her money for the tennis racket. But she actually DOES pay Liz back in this one.

Is There a Dance? No.

Lingering Questions: Why has someone yet to slap Ellen Riteman in the face?

Cover: Good or Bad? Good, because it has a beautiful horse, and Ginny Lu is just too cute for words. Liz would be okay if her smile didn't look more than a little smug.

Fantabulous Quotes (With Commentary): "'Can you imagine a place being called Stony Gap?'"
Can you imagine a place being called Sweet Valley?

"She was wearing a puffed green dress with a full, billowing skirt. On her feet were thick green knee socks and worn brown leather shoes."
I can assure you that I know absolutely no one from Tennessee or Virginia (where I'm from) who dresses like this. I don't even think the Amish in Pennsylvania dress like that!

On page 15 it is mentioned that Jessica bought a purple sweater with a unicorn on it. That is so twee. Unicorns are awesome, but not emblazoned on the front of a shirt unless done ironically (see Taylor Swift's "Haters Gonna Hate" outfit).

On page 17 Liz resolves not to give into her sister's pleas for money. Three sentences later she has already started to cave.

"She was tempted to run right back into the dressing room, but instead, she tilted her chin proudly and marched out of the store."
Good for you, Ginny Lu!

"'I can't find anything edible on this plate, so I might as well use the lunch period for something worthwhile.'"
Said by Nora Mercandy. I LOLed. That's fantastic.

"'Besides, it has a hole in it.'
'The perfect reason to sell it.'
'I don't want people thinking that my clothes have holes in them!'"

Sometimes you just have to truly love Jessica Wakefield.

Moral of the Story: Always rid yourself of your accent when you leave the Deep South (or the Smoky Mountains).

Final Rating: 2 stars.

[trace ♡°。 · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this one, the Sweet Valley kids torment a new girl because she is "such a hillbilly oh my gosh wow hyuck hyuck"

That is a quote literal

[Tiffany Spencer]

Out Of Place
Jessica is in a hurry to get to school to meet with Janet. On the way, Ellen tells them Mrs.Waldron’s niece is coming there permanently. Ellen calls her a hillbilly. Liz says she’s just mad at Mrs. Waldon because she gave her a C. In class, Mrs. Waldrons niece (Ginny Lu Culpepper) shows up. She has her red hair in braids, a puffy blous, and brown shoes. She bursts into the classroom looking for her aunt. Ellen (whose walked to the pencil sharpener) calls her a hillbilly and the whole class bursts out laughing. Ginny sees Ellen and tells her she thinks the class is laughing at her because her slip is showing. Mrs. Arnette scolds Ginny Lu for her improper behavoir. After class, Jessica tells Liz she’s in trouble. She loaned Janet Mr. Wakefield’s prize tennis racket to Janet for a date. Then her brother ran it over. The racket coasts fifty dollars and she doesn’t have the money to replace it. Mr. Wakefiled will be gone out of town for two weeks so she has until then to figure out how to come up with the money to replace it.

On the way to her aunts, Ginny Lu vents to her aunt about her day (and Mrs. Arnette). Her aunt says it’ll be good to have company again and offers to buy her some new clothes the following day. Ginny Lu loves her new room and think it looks like a doll house. Her aunt says she can call her mother once a week (starting right then). Jessica says she's going to ask for her advance on her allowance. She’’ll just tell him she’s going to buy a new sweater. All through dinner she caters to her father and then she drops the bomb. Her parents say she just bought a sweater and she’ll just have to save her money. Her father says that’s the reason why they get an allowance. They ask Liz how long she’s been saving for new riding boots. Liz says three weeks. She knows what’s coming. She tells Jessica no. Jessica says it’s just a loan. She says maybe she can lend her enough for the down payment but she’ll have to pay her back and earn enough to pay for the racket. Lizkinda knows she’ll never see the money.

Ginny Lu and her aunt go to Valley Fashions. While they’re there they run into Ellen and she offers to *help* her pick out an outfit. Mrs. Waldron says she’ll let them shop and she’ll go run some errands. Once alone, Ellen tells her the secret is to find clothes that reflect her personality. Ellen says she’s going to help her out just like she helped her. Then she starts thrusting clothes at her. Ginny says some of them aren’t her. They’re too wild. Lila appears and asks Ellen if she’s looking for something for a costume party. Ellen says she’s just teasing and then they both start throwing clothes in her arms. They push her into the dressing room and tell her to hurry up and try them on before her aunt gets back. The first outfit is blue and white leopard skin tights. Blue and white stripped knee socks, and an orange leather mini skirt. Then she tries on a huge, green, sweater. She notes a long, pink, scarf on and a pair of banana earrings. Then she puts on snake skin tennis shoes. When she comes out her aunt nearly has a heart attack and the saleslady says she looks dreadful. The sweater is too big and the colors clash. The lady asks if she color blind. Mrs. Waldron says she’s afraid the girls played a trick on her. She says no they’re her new friends, but when she looks in the mirror she sees Lila and Ellen laughing. Mrs. Waldron comes over and gives them a piece of her mind. Ginny Lu walks out and her aunt follows. In the car, Mrs. Waldron says she never dreamed the kdis would take out how they feel about her on Ginny. Ginny says it’s just her. She’s different.

Mr. Clark makes an announcement that there will be a visiting art teacher (Mrs. Cunningham). There will be a 10th anniversary art fair and the proceeds will be toward renovations of the school. Ginny asks what you have to do and the teacher says you have to have a talent. Ellen says that leaves her out. Ellen says Ginny Lu can show off hillbilly fashions. Charlie says she can model overalls and corn pipes. Ginny tells her to shut up but Mrs. Arnette doesn’t hear Ellen. Just Ginny and tells her if she has something to say not to shout. At lunch, Nora tells Liz her idea. That can all have pictures of kids posing with their entires. Inside their would be a ballot and they’d call it “The Students Choice”. Liz likes the idea. He says they need to tlk to Mr. Bowman and think of a way to reproduce the pictures since they usually don’t have pictures in the paper. She tells Amy to go talk to Mrs. Cunningham to tell her the idea. Amy, Liz, and Nora see and sympathize with Ginny Lu. Liz remembers all to well what they did to Nora and she goes to ask Ginny Lu to sit with them. But Nora and Amy say they have to go get started on their adjustments. She sees Jessica who asks if she wants her casserole. She asks why she doesn’t buy lunch and she says she has to save money for the racket. She tells her to spend her lunch money and get the money some other way but don’t try to make her feel bad (or trick her out of her lunch). She says she might have to save her lunch money the rest of the year and then starts to cry. Liz gives in like she always does and tells her she can have a bite (eJessica eats the whole thing). Ginny Lu is sitting by herself but she gets up to leave when she feels all the stares. As she leaves, she feels a paper airplane hit her from the back. So, she has her lunch in the bathroom. She asks herself why they don’t like her and then says back to herself she just doesn’t look right. She hears the Unicorns come in laughing at what happened at the mall. She’s tempted to say something to them, but stays hidden in the stalls. After they leave she just stays there. Then she just leaves and starts running with no destination.

Ginny Lu emds i[ at Carspm Stables. It reminds her of home and she walks down each stall greeting the horses. Ginny sees a white Arabian and sees its pregnant. She nuzzles it and sees it’s name is Snow White. She tells her she wishes she could stay there with her. Liz also heads to Carson Stables for her lesson with Ted. She thinks witsfully of her riding boots. When she gets there she goes to the tack room. She calls out for Ted but he doesn’t answer. She hears singing and then sees Ginny Lu. Ginny recognizes Liz from one of her classes (math) but she says that must be her twin. She sees Ginny Lu has a doll and Ginny Lu says she (widdled it) out of wood. Liz likes the doll so Ginny Lu gives it to her. She says Liz could learn. It’s her second favorite hobby. Liz then explains how she takes lessons there with Ted. Liz says she wishes she owned Snow White. But then her owner shoes up.. Ellen. Ellen orders her out of her stall. Liz asks her why she’s being so mean. Snow White backs away and Ellen yells at her. Ginny Lu comes between her and the horse and strokes her until she calms down. Ellen swings the door open and it scares Snow White (who rears up). Ellen tells her it’s her horse and she’ll do what she wants with it. Ellen then points out she shouldn’t be there it’s a private club, but Liz says *she* invited her. Ellen says she’ll see about that and leaves. Liz says don’t mind Ellen. She’s had trouble with Snow since she got pregnant. Just as well Ginny Lu says she’ll just stay out of Ellen’s way for now and thanks Liz for standing up for her. She then says goodbye to Snow. Liz offers her a chance to come back with her when she doesn’t have a lesson to meet Ted and if she should just happen to pet Snow no one would know. Ginny agrees with the idea.

Liz comes home and finds her room in shables. Jessica tells her she’s having a garage sale. She tells Jessica to call her own clothes and books. Jessica claims she doesn’t have anything and dismisses the idea altogether. Mrs. Wakefield sees the doll later and admires it. She says it’s a lost art. She has a few clients that are collectors. Her mother says to tell her she’s a true artists. Liz gets an idea. Mrs. Clark said she was unusual displays. It’s the perfect way for her to get some friends and get some confidence. She scribbles a note for Ginny to meet her at lunch. Later at lunch, Ginny expresses her doubts. Liz promises her no one will make fun of her and she thinks she’ll win first prize. She says she *could* show them what Tenesse’s all about. She could even use some of her mom’s quilts. She could even give the judges a demonstration. Bruce picks this moment to make fun of her. Liz tells him to mind his business. Ginny tells her she’s not sure. Liz says to come with her to the stables later. She tells her to keep in mind guys like Bruce doesn’t have any special skills. Ginny says she doesn���t know about that he makes a mean paper airplane. Then she says she’ll think about it.

Snow White is excited to see Ginny. Liz notices she’s different around animals (more confident). Unfortunately, Ellen is there. She’s with her friends in a circle. Ginny gets upset over something about inappropriate saddles. Ellen thinks she has something to prove and goes to ride her father’s horse that’s wild. She challenges Ginny lu to ride her father’s horse Midnight. Liz tries to warn her but Ellen’s friends start chanting she’s a scardy cat. Liz tries to get Ellen to call off the dare but Ellen says she’s not making her. If she’s too scared she doesn’t have to. Liz runs to get Tim. Hopefully he’ll make them see sense. Ginny Lu meanwhile is trying to give herself a pep talk. The horse throws her pretty badly. Liz is there and asks if she’s all right. She says her pride is hurt and her tailbone. Ted snaps at Ellen and says he’s going to tell her father, It was one of the most irresponsible thins he’s seen. Ellem goes after him pleading not to. Liz tells Ellen it was a pretty dumb thing to do and it won’t prove anything, but she can prove how good she is by entering the fair. Ellen is going to enter some horse drawings. Ginny Lu says she can do better and decides to enter the art fair. Beating Ellen Ritman now is the most important thing. Now Ginny Lu is excited!

Jessica butters up to Steve. She says she’ll do his household chorses if he gives her his allowance. He can keep half. He immediately sets her to work dusting the hallway. He tells her not to tell their parents. They’ll just pretend she’s helping him out. By Friday, she’s ready to quit. Their parents give Steve and Jessica praise for all their hard work. They decid to give Jessica a bonus with her allowance. Steve starts to protest but then his dad points out all the things they saw Jessica doing while he was goofing around. They make him apologize to her. Liz realizes what’s been going on. Ginny Lu comes by with the dolls. Liz says Mrs. Wakefield can give them tips on how to set up their display. All the dolls are dressed as pioneer women. Liz loves them! Mrs. Wakefield does too! Her mom says they’re rare . They can sell for at least twenty-five dollars at craft stores. Jessica hears and thinks that she’d just need to sell two of them. She’ll just have to get Ginny to go into business with her.

The fair will be in the gym. Liz and Ginny decide to decorate the corner to look like a country kitchen. On one wall they display the perserves. On another they place the quill. They hang their sign. Now they’re all set. Ginny starts to wheedle. Liz puts on some “mountain music”. Liz scoops out the other booths and reports that Ginny’s is the best. Charlie and Jerry take interest in what Ginny’s doing and she explains to them how it’s done. Other sixth graders stop to listen to her. Charlie and some of the other boys ask her to teach them how to make some of the toys. The four judges start to make their rounds. Even Ellen leaves her booth and comes over as the crowd goes. The finishing touch is Ginny reads a poem and reads it like she’s playing a fiddle (faster and faster). Brcue tries to throw her off by yowling and she messes up for a minute but keeps going. The last line is “The coon hounds bayed and babied” the kids start to chant it (Ellen). Ginny gets humiliated and runs out of the gym.

Liz runs out to find out and runs into Jessica who has a list of shops who might be interested in Ginny Lu’s dollas. She tells Jessica what happened and how she feels responsible. Jessica says she’s sure she’ll turn up. Jessica says if she doesn’t show up she’ll go to Ellen’s and tell her she’d better be nice to Ginny. Meanwhile, Ginny is preparing to leave and go back home. She writes her aunt a goodbye letter. She realizes she’s going to miss her aunt and Liz but she doesn’t fit in at Sweet Valley. The only friend she made was a horse. She decides to say her goodbyes to Snow and see her one last itme. Mrs. Waldron finds the note and shows it to Liz. Mrs. Waldron doesn’t know where she could be, but Liz has an idea and tells her she’ll be at Carson Stables and tells her about Snow.

Ginny finds Ted having problems with Snow. She then sees that the horse has given birth. Ginny checks him out and sees that the horse is premature and if he doesn’t stand and eat soon he’ll be in trouble. But the horse won’t let Ted near her. The mare does let Ginny Lu approach her. She also lets her get close to the colt. She encourages the horse to stand. Ellen comes in and yells at Ginny. Jessica is with her and tells Ellen she promised to be nice. Ellen thinks she’s trying to hurt her horse, but Ted corrects her. Ellen says the vet should do that. Ted tells her that every second wasted the colt could die. Ellen looks to KEssica. She says they have to trust Ginny Lu and Ted. Ellen finally agrees. After Ginny’s help, the colt is able to stay on his feet and he goes to his mother and begins to nurse. The vet arrives and commends Ginny on her quick thinking. Ellen then apologizes to Ginny and then lets her name the colt. She decides to name him “Sooner” Mrs. Waldron tells her about the shop. Jessica offers to take 10 percent. Jessica also tells her she won the fair. She won “Best of Show”. Her aunt asks if she’s going or staying. Ellen says she has to stay. Who’ll help her with Snow and Sooner. She says she’ll stick around. Jessica gets her 10 percent agents fee and now she’ll be able to pay for the racket and also pay Liz back.

My Thoughts
This book for me starts a new chapter. I am SO (so) SO glad I found this site. Up to a point I had read (and bought) books 1-21, The last one I remember buying is “Left Behind” Then for some reason I skipped a bunch of em and bought “Jessica’s Secret” further down. Probably by this time years ago, I started to lose interest in this series and just stopped. As yal probably know to it’s very hard to find these. You ocan find the SVH ones on Kindle Unlimited (Amazon) but I’m very grateful that I found most of these so now I can complete this series eventually. If not I would have just had to rely on this site I found called 1BRUCE! Which gives reviews of mostly all the books in the Sweet Valley collection (and that’s A LOT). But over the years the reviews have become somewhat hidden. They use to be easier to find. For this book, I just noticed an odd thing. I wasn’t surprised that they treated Ginny Lu bad. “Different” in this series always is treated with contempt. But I noticed that Jessica did not treat Ginny Lu like a freak and even tried to get Ellen to treat her nice in the end. I thought did I skip a book where Jessica had a personality change? It just seemed out of character. Or maybe she was so busy trying to manipulate her into “helping” her she didn’t care. Then did it make sense to anyone else that Ginny Lu *should* give her 10 percent? For WHAT? If anyone she should have given Mrs. Wakefield twn percent. I thought she was the one who found the shops. So, Jessica just gives ten percent because… she gave her the good news? RIIIGHT!

Rating: 5

[EL]

Teacher, Mrs Waldron has a niece, Ginny Lu, who has come from The Smoky Mountains in Tennessee all the way to Sweet Valley in California to live. She arrives a bit earlier than expected and waltzes into Ms Arnette's classroom, because anyone can just walk into a school and interrupt a class, whenever they fancy, apparently. Ellen Riteman and Lila Fowler decide to bully Ginny Lu, because she'sdifferent to them. Ginny Lu finds Carson Stables after running away from school and by sheer ironic chance, falls in love with Ellen Riteman's pregnant horse. This is where I interrupt the story to go off on a tangent and state my firm opinion that Elizabeth Wakefield is an utter wet wipe. She will let Jessica eat her lunch, give her any amount of money she's saved, and be fine with Jessica going through her room to find things to sell, with minimal to no fuss.
Ginny Lu likes to whittle. Yes, that was quite a jump in topic. What I appreciated here, was the introduction of other cultures (in this case, Appalachian) and their art. It's still American but it was nice to see this marked difference in lifestyle in a Sweet Valley book, despite Ginny Lu being represented as a loud hillbilly (that word is actually used, too). The Unicorns are 100% a gang of nasty bullies, Jessica is narcissistic and Elizabeth is insufferable. But at least Lois didn't get fat shamed!

[James Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's a new student in the school and she is classified as a 'hillbilly.' Her way of talking is different from the other students . She also tees off the teacher since her behavior is unusual, by the school's standards.

This, obviously, leads to a lot of bullying. Meanwhile Jessica uses her father's tennis racket without his permission and ends up accidentally destroying it, leaving her with the problem of getting enough money to buy him another racket and try to pass it off as the original one.

There's an art talent show at the school. The bullying remains bad and she runs out of the school. Later Elizabeth finds her at a horse stable. It turns out the girl has an interesting talent.

The story is another one about how easy bullying starts and how long it can go on but it can end once the students really get to know the one being bullied.

Unfortunately, not all real-life bullying stories work out so well.

[Mez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Elizabeth saw the change in her sister and knew exactly what was coming next. There was no way she was going to give in this time
One page later....
"Well... maybe I can lend you enough for the down payment."

Door mat Liz strikes again, and Jessica gets what she wants!

Here I am back on my quest to re-read all my Sweet Valley books. This book followed a very familiar pattern in this series which is new-kid-arrives-in-SV, gets picked on, Liz befriends them, the mean kids see the error in their ways, everyone gets a happy ending!

This book was not bad. I quite liked the character of Ginny-Lou (even though she was a stereotypical southern american). Hope she doesnt disappear like all the other characters (Sophia, Brooke Dennis, Sarah Thomas anyone?). But a lingering question.... why did she move to Sweet Valley? That part wasn't explained at all lol.

[Karol · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book centers around the adjustment and torment of a new girl that come from a different environment. Elizabeth does her best to help the girl while Jessica has an ulterior motive in being friendly with her.

[Joannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think this is exciting and want it

[Angie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m reading the Sweet Valley Twins books with my daughter- it’s great revisiting the classics from my childhood.

[Kylie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sweet Valley Twins 22 - Out of Place
Another new girl is at SVMS, and this time she’s a hillbilly named Ginny Lu Culpepper who dresses like she’s from to 1800s. She makes an enemy of Ellen when she points out her slip(?) is showing. Meanwhile Jessica loaned Janet Ned’s amazing tennis racket and it gets destroyed, so now she needs $50 for a new one. Meanwhile Ellen and others are being horrible to Ginny Lu, who decides to enter some arts and craft fair… which I assume she will win with some incredible talent. At least Ginny Lu stands up to the kids, unlike most new students. Liz runs into Ginny Lu at the stables and learns she whittles dolls (because she’s a hillbilly), and defends GL when Ellen shows up and demands she gets away from her pregnant horse - how can Ellen afford a horse - two apparently, as she dares GL to ride her Dads wild stallion, cause her to fall off because the saddle wasn’t buckled. But she impresses kids at the fair with her ‘gee-haw whimmy diddles’ 😳 Ellen and Co still manage to run her out, mimicking a poem she recites. Liz and Jess try to find her after Jess finds out that GLs dolls could sell for $25 each. But Jess is also uncharacteristically nice to GL for no reason. Anyway they all find GL at the stables before she heads back to Tennessee, helping out Ellen’s horse who just gave birth. Now everyone loves her, she won the fair, and she names the foal ‘Sooner’ and she sells her dolls, giving Jess a 10% agents fee.
My rating - 4/10 - Not as bad as normal horse books, although the stereotypes were 🙈
Also, RIP to FP ❤️.
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[Kris (My Novelesque Life) · Rating 4 out of 5]

RATING: 4 STARS
(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***

[Tara Calaby]

In this book, all of the kids at Sweet Valley Middle School gang up to bully a new kid. If that sounds familiar, it's because that's a really really common theme in these books. On the upside, Jess isn't part of the bullying in this one. A+, Jessica.

[Justine · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was okay. Not really my favorite.

[Jodie · Rating 4 out of 5]

They had a way of making me feel like I was important to the world because some one cared enough to write about me....

[Melenia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Loved these books as a child

[Deborah Harris]

AR Quiz No. 9736 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP

[Anneke · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well told tale of a so-called hillbilly.

[Cws]

JAR4-Pas

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember the cover but just not the story