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Sweet Valley Twins #76
Yours for a Day
A matchmaking disaster...
The members of the Unicorn Club are donating themselves to charity! For a price, they'll obey a classmate's wishes for an entire day. But with the big Valentine's Day dance coming up, Jessica Wakefield can't resist turning the fund-raiser into a matchmaking plan.
Jessica knows that Mandy Miller has a huge crush on Peter Jeffries. She orders Mandy, as her servant for a day, to ask Peter to the dance.
But Peter turns Mandy down! And then Jessica ends up as Mandy's servant for the day. Can Jessica repair her matchmaking fiasco before Mandy takes her revenge?
The members of the Unicorn Club are donating themselves to charity! For a price, they'll obey a classmate's wishes for an entire day. But with the big Valentine's Day dance coming up, Jessica Wakefield can't resist turning the fund-raiser into a matchmaking plan.
Jessica knows that Mandy Miller has a huge crush on Peter Jeffries. She orders Mandy, as her servant for a day, to ask Peter to the dance.
But Peter turns Mandy down! And then Jessica ends up as Mandy's servant for the day. Can Jessica repair her matchmaking fiasco before Mandy takes her revenge?
137 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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Francine Pascal
1,139 books1,845 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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February 9, 2018
It’s Valentine’s Day, and there are Unicorns in the air! To raise money for the cancer wing of the local children’s hospital, Mandy Miller and Co have decided to hold a master/slave day, political correctness be damned.
You see, Mandy had cancer for probably a week, but now she is magically “cured,” and she wants to give back to the hospital for all they did for her. The Unicorns decide it would be fantastic if everyone paid to be a master for a day (being a servant is free). They will choose names out of a big bowl in order to pair everyone up.
Liz and Amy, meanwhile, are sick of Todd and Ken. They are being misogynistic and saying that Liz and Amy will never beat them at tennis. But instead of getting mad the girls decide to get even, and a war begins. Liz and Amy get the boys back, and then the boys retaliate by dropping a bucket of ice water on their heads. This is where the Master/Slave idea plays perfectly into them getting revenge on the boys.
Liz asks Jess to purposefully draw Todd and Ken for her and Amy. She agrees but says Liz will owe her one. So Jess draws the first two names and Lila draws the rest. Jess is paired up with Lloyd, a geek she pissed off in a previous book. Janet gets stuck with Winston, which is hilarious. Mandy will be Jessica’s slave (she is Lloyd’s servant).
Mandy has a crush on Peter Jeffries. The V-Day dance is coming up and Jess wants to play matchmaker. Since Mandy is her slave, she only asks her to do one thing: ask Peter to the dance. Naturally, Mandy was too shy to do this before. She is pissed at Jess but she does it anyway.
It’s hysterical to me how everyone treats this like a real thing and asks like they can’t do whatever they want. They HAVE to do what the other person says.
So Mandy asks Peter but he turns her down because Grace asked him first. Mandy is livid at Jess.
Liz and Amy assign Ken and Todd their first humiliating assignment. They have to walk to the lunch line on their hands and bring the girls lunch. Then the next day they have to wear hideous ties. Finally, they have to answer all questions in class wrong even if they know the answer, and then they have to hide out under their desks.
Mrs. Arnette does not tell them to stop being so disruptive. Instead, she lets them keep behaving like lunatics.
When Mandy tells Lila about what Jess did, Lila suggests revenge. They think about getting Lloyd to switch partners so Jessica can be Mandy’s slave, but they know he won’t agree to it.
Through some Unicorn machinations it works, and Jess is Mandy’s slave. Mandy orders her to sing an awful song in front of the whole cafeteria for at least three minutes. Jessica does it and finds Grace crying afterwards. It turns out that Grace wanted to go to the dance with Winston the whole time, but they had a fight so she asked Peter instead. Jess sees her chance to make things right with Mandy.
From here it gets really confusing, because there is switch after switch after switch. Jessica ends up with Winston as a servant and demands he ask Grace to the dance to free up Peter for Mandy. He does it and all is well. Then Jess makes a few more maneuvers so she can ask Peter if he has a date for the dance yet (again).
It turns out he does... he asked Mandy as soon as Grace dumped him!
Relieved, Jess thinks her problems are over... until she realizes that by switching from Lloyd to Winston she stuck Janet with Lloyd. During the dance, Lloyd tells Jess she must give him an extra Sunday of her time because Janet was “too sick” to work with him that day.
Again, no one questions why this is something Jess HAS to do. She could just give him his money back.
Ken and Todd act suspiciously nice leading up the dance. Liz is concerned, but Amy tells her she is being paranoid. She says that the boys are capable of being nice to them without an agenda. Ha!!
Todd calls and tells Liz he will buy her a corsage to match her dress. At the dance she and Amy can’t stop sneezing. It takes her and Liz way too long to discover what’s going on. When they both head to the bathroom they realize there is sneezing powder in their corsages. They throw them in the toilet, and after the dance the foursome call a truce.
Mandy and Peter are so happy they got to attend the dance together. After the dance she tells the Unicorns that she and Peter have a movie date for the following weekend. Then Jess tells her that she will be completing the last fifteen minutes of duty to Lloyd. I mean, if you made it that far you should have just finished out the day!!
But, Mandy, just say no. It’s possible.
Quotes:
Jessica: It’s called feel rich for a day.
Bruce: Like I don’t know what that feels like.
“Mandy knew Jessica wasn’t normally a mean person...”
Your sources have failed you, Mandy.
You see, Mandy had cancer for probably a week, but now she is magically “cured,” and she wants to give back to the hospital for all they did for her. The Unicorns decide it would be fantastic if everyone paid to be a master for a day (being a servant is free). They will choose names out of a big bowl in order to pair everyone up.
Liz and Amy, meanwhile, are sick of Todd and Ken. They are being misogynistic and saying that Liz and Amy will never beat them at tennis. But instead of getting mad the girls decide to get even, and a war begins. Liz and Amy get the boys back, and then the boys retaliate by dropping a bucket of ice water on their heads. This is where the Master/Slave idea plays perfectly into them getting revenge on the boys.
Liz asks Jess to purposefully draw Todd and Ken for her and Amy. She agrees but says Liz will owe her one. So Jess draws the first two names and Lila draws the rest. Jess is paired up with Lloyd, a geek she pissed off in a previous book. Janet gets stuck with Winston, which is hilarious. Mandy will be Jessica’s slave (she is Lloyd’s servant).
Mandy has a crush on Peter Jeffries. The V-Day dance is coming up and Jess wants to play matchmaker. Since Mandy is her slave, she only asks her to do one thing: ask Peter to the dance. Naturally, Mandy was too shy to do this before. She is pissed at Jess but she does it anyway.
It’s hysterical to me how everyone treats this like a real thing and asks like they can’t do whatever they want. They HAVE to do what the other person says.
So Mandy asks Peter but he turns her down because Grace asked him first. Mandy is livid at Jess.
Liz and Amy assign Ken and Todd their first humiliating assignment. They have to walk to the lunch line on their hands and bring the girls lunch. Then the next day they have to wear hideous ties. Finally, they have to answer all questions in class wrong even if they know the answer, and then they have to hide out under their desks.
Mrs. Arnette does not tell them to stop being so disruptive. Instead, she lets them keep behaving like lunatics.
When Mandy tells Lila about what Jess did, Lila suggests revenge. They think about getting Lloyd to switch partners so Jessica can be Mandy’s slave, but they know he won’t agree to it.
Through some Unicorn machinations it works, and Jess is Mandy’s slave. Mandy orders her to sing an awful song in front of the whole cafeteria for at least three minutes. Jessica does it and finds Grace crying afterwards. It turns out that Grace wanted to go to the dance with Winston the whole time, but they had a fight so she asked Peter instead. Jess sees her chance to make things right with Mandy.
From here it gets really confusing, because there is switch after switch after switch. Jessica ends up with Winston as a servant and demands he ask Grace to the dance to free up Peter for Mandy. He does it and all is well. Then Jess makes a few more maneuvers so she can ask Peter if he has a date for the dance yet (again).
It turns out he does... he asked Mandy as soon as Grace dumped him!
Relieved, Jess thinks her problems are over... until she realizes that by switching from Lloyd to Winston she stuck Janet with Lloyd. During the dance, Lloyd tells Jess she must give him an extra Sunday of her time because Janet was “too sick” to work with him that day.
Again, no one questions why this is something Jess HAS to do. She could just give him his money back.
Ken and Todd act suspiciously nice leading up the dance. Liz is concerned, but Amy tells her she is being paranoid. She says that the boys are capable of being nice to them without an agenda. Ha!!
Todd calls and tells Liz he will buy her a corsage to match her dress. At the dance she and Amy can’t stop sneezing. It takes her and Liz way too long to discover what’s going on. When they both head to the bathroom they realize there is sneezing powder in their corsages. They throw them in the toilet, and after the dance the foursome call a truce.
Mandy and Peter are so happy they got to attend the dance together. After the dance she tells the Unicorns that she and Peter have a movie date for the following weekend. Then Jess tells her that she will be completing the last fifteen minutes of duty to Lloyd. I mean, if you made it that far you should have just finished out the day!!
But, Mandy, just say no. It’s possible.
Quotes:
Jessica: It’s called feel rich for a day.
Bruce: Like I don’t know what that feels like.
“Mandy knew Jessica wasn’t normally a mean person...”
Your sources have failed you, Mandy.
April 2, 2021
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February 12, 2021
Sometime you just have to read something silly from your youth for Valentine's Day!
June 12, 2022
This one was cute, but I didn't love it as much as other SVTs I've read lately.
November 25, 2024
this one had about 6 or 7 typos
January 17, 2016
Yours For A Day
The school is going to have a project to raise money for a cancer ward at a local hospital. The concept is that students can buy tickets to be a master or a slave for a day (or two). They can get their slave to do stupid and embarrassing students (no one will be hurt or violated).
There's a lot of switching after the names are drawn. Jessica wants to pair up Mandy and Peter, but things don't go the way Jessica wanted. No matter who get mad at who, though, things end up working out, two new couples are formed, and the amount of money they raise is substantial.
A good read.
July 27, 2012
I liked how Elizabeth & Amy made their "slave guys" dress goofy & raise their hands to answer every question wrong. It was pretty funny!
January 21, 2014
This book was so good! Read this book!
June 22, 2013
I remember the cover but just not the story.
June 27, 2025
Jessica plays cupid and pays the price! This is one book in which Jess is way nicer and wiser than Liz!
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June 29, 2012this is great , a wonderful story :DDD
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