The Middle School Gets Married

Sweet Valley Twins #68

by Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne

Married, with children ...

As part of a health-class project, all the students at Sweet Valley Middle School are pairing up into simulated marriages. Their assignment is to manage a make-believe household and care for an egg that represents a baby. The only problem is, their teacher, Mr. Siegel, is picking the couples!

Elizabeth Wakefield finds herself paired with snobby Bruce Patman, who refuses to help out. Jessica Wakefield's pretend husband, Rick Hunter, teases her mercilessly and refuses to cut it out. And Todd Wilkins gets stuck with Lila Fowler, who only wants to eat out! Can the middle-schoolers survive two whole weeks of married life?

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade

135 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

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

Reviews

[Rachel B · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of my all-time favorites as a kid. The fake relationship/arranged marriage tropes could always reel me in, even when I was 9, lol.

After rereading it as an adult, I can say with confidence that it holds up and is genuinely hilarious. I think this is, hands down, my favorite Sweet Valley book across the entire franchise.

[Pulp_Fiction_Books · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is entirely that 90's/00's trope we've all seen so many times where students are paired off as "married couples" and have to look after a fake baby/egg/bag of flour (Saved By The Bell and Lizzie McGuire we're two that sprung immediately to mind). If you've ever seen any of these or read a SVT book before then you know exactly what you're getting, that being an easily digestable, good time.

[Yash · Rating 5 out of 5]

As kids, we all enjoyed this book so much.
Laughed till the end.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

I absolutely love this one.

[Michaela · Rating 4 out of 5]

awww, rick and jessica are so cute :)

[PurplyCookie · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first exposure to these kinds of school projects since we never had these when I was studying. The project was this: all the sixth graders were paired off by their teacher (and what unlikely pairs did they make!) to become "married couples" and given an egg as their "baby" charge. They have to survive the next couple of weeks as amicably good parents/role models to their eggs.

Elizabeth finds herself paired with snob Bruce Patman, who refuses to help out. Jessica's pretend husband, Rick Hunter, teases her mercilessly and refuses to cut it out. And Todd Wilkins gets stuck with Lila Fowler, who only wants to eat out.


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Book Details:

Title: The Middle School Gets Married (Sweet Valley Twins and Friends #68)
Author: Francine Pascal
Reviewed By: Purplycookie

[A&E · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite Sweet Valley books! :D Haha. It was so cute.

[Sally · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow. We just looked after eggs for a week! None of this working together and planning and everything else... SMS and SVMS really went all out with their grade 6 projects.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember the cover just not the story.

[Laurie D'ghent · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun little book with the excellent writing I've come to expect from Pascal