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Sweet Valley Twins #12
Keeping Secrets
Breaking promises. . .Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield's father teaches them a secret language called Ithig. All their friends want to know the secret too, but the twins have made a pact with their father not to give it away. Elizabeth, at least, intends to keep her promise. But Jessica can't help herself--she teaches her best friend, Lila Fowler, the secret language. That means that soon the whole school will know Ithig.Now the class decides to use the language against the one teacher they don't like--Ms. McDonald. They will speak only Ithig in class the day the school supervisor comes to review her. At first, Elizabeth is angry at Jessica for breaking her promise about Ithig--but now Elizabeth should she break her own promise and warn Ms. McDonald?DON'T MISS ANY OF THE BOOKS IN THIS FABULOUS SERIES!
103 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1987
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Francine Pascal
1,139 books1,850 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 6, 2015
This one made me mad as hell
Jessica and Elizabeth's dad let them in on a stupid family secret and their "friends" team up to hate on them because they're not willing to betray their dad's trust and leak the secret. Y'all wakefields need new friends
Jessica and Elizabeth's dad let them in on a stupid family secret and their "friends" team up to hate on them because they're not willing to betray their dad's trust and leak the secret. Y'all wakefields need new friends
September 13, 2024
This was a reread from my childhood, and I really enjoyed the three stories ( i read the 3 in one book containing books 1-3) , and it was interesting to see how much times have changed since these stories were written.
There are good lessons to learn for teens in these books, such as loyalty, trust, friendship and doing the right thing. I didn't like some aspects such as the male egos, women being treated as less than and sidelined, but I suppose this shows how times, writing and feminism have changed since the 80s.
I would love a revamp of this series!
There are good lessons to learn for teens in these books, such as loyalty, trust, friendship and doing the right thing. I didn't like some aspects such as the male egos, women being treated as less than and sidelined, but I suppose this shows how times, writing and feminism have changed since the 80s.
I would love a revamp of this series!
March 16, 2022
This book is a frustrating read, all because of a certain "secret" language (that soon gets spread to the whole school.)
I basically skimmed everything in ithig because, ugh.
All of the twins friends are super terrible to them because they want to find out about this language, and for what? To be annoyed to death by it? Also, why does Ned make such a big deal out of this? He teases this secret for ages, and then makes them promise that it has to be just between them and ugh Ned. Ugh. UGH.
I have fond memories of the cover of this one (because the girls are at Guido's, which I always imagined was so much fun,) and I have my own vague memories of Pig Latin sweeping our elementary school (although I can't imagine middle schoolers would be THIS into it.)
I basically skimmed everything in ithig because, ugh.
All of the twins friends are super terrible to them because they want to find out about this language, and for what? To be annoyed to death by it? Also, why does Ned make such a big deal out of this? He teases this secret for ages, and then makes them promise that it has to be just between them and ugh Ned. Ugh. UGH.
I have fond memories of the cover of this one (because the girls are at Guido's, which I always imagined was so much fun,) and I have my own vague memories of Pig Latin sweeping our elementary school (although I can't imagine middle schoolers would be THIS into it.)
July 29, 2017
This book is soooo weird. Why does their father fanatically insist that this secret language be hidden from everyone? Even Alice and Steven aren't allowed to know! The whole thing just makes zero sense.
Of course, it's that kind of ridiculousness that makes me love these books.
Of course, it's that kind of ridiculousness that makes me love these books.
August 2, 2022
3.5 for nostalgia
December 22, 2021
Keeping Secrets
Plot: Jessica is on pins and needles wondering what her father’s secret will be as she and Elisabeth wait for him to come home and take them out to dinner. Jessica keeps trying to get clues out of Elizabeth but she doesn’t know any more than Jessica does. They hear a noise that startles them and footsteps coming up from the basement. But it’s only Steven doing laundry. He’s trying to be more responsible and help Alice out (who's been working long hours). Their father's family comes home and reveals the secret is a secret language called ITHING.
At the restaurant, Mr. Wakefield tells about his childhood friend (Billy Fantana) and how this secret language was passed down from his father’s father. The rules go ithing goes between each syllable. Short ones like (I and am) have ithing at the end of the word. Elizabeth picks it up right away. Caroline comes over to their table at Guido’s and asks what she heard. Jessica says it’s a secret language and they can’t tell her (She could have just said you didn’t hear anything). Then she (Jessica) catches on after some tries.
Jessica speaks Ithing in front of her mother the next day, her brother, and Amy (on the way to school). But when Amy questions the twins they both tell her it’s nothing. The Unicorns confront Jessica at school about what Caroline heard. When Elizabeth sees them ganging up on Jessica, she jumps in to help her out and admits that Caroline heard them speaking a secret language taught to them by their father. Only Amy overhears and gets upset. So Elizabeth has to go after her and tell her the same thing. By lunch it’s no better, Amy gets into it again with Elizabeth and Lila tells Jessica she’ll never speak to her again. Jessica tries to plead that she promised her father but Lila doesn’t care. Elizabeth and Jessica end up eating together. Caroline and Amy have now been made temporary Unicorns and are sitting at their table. Jessica tries to get underneath their skin by speaking Ithing loudly, but they aren’t paying her any attention. So she goes over to the Unicorn’s table and asks how long will this last. Lila says it’ll end when she tells them the secret language.
After school, Elizabeth tries to make up with Amy (whose putting her off), but Lila interrupts and invites Amy to a benefit party for a famous tennis player (Chris Crosby). Elizabeth wonders what game Lila is playing. Later the twins even find out Steven was invited personally by Lila. At a Sixer’s meeting, Mary Robinson announces that her mother is seeing a new man and it’s going well. Mr.Bow man drops by and says he needs new ideas for the next issue. Amy mentions the party and Elizabeth volunteers her to write a piece on it *to Amy’s surprise*. After leaving the meeting, Elizabeth notices some of the teachers are having a celebration in one of other classrooms and she finds out that one of them (Mr.Gavin)’s wife just had a new son. When she gets home she finds an invitation in ITHING from Lila. As soon as Jessica gets home she confronts her. Jessica says it wasn’t worth losing their friends and she told Lila because she promised her that she wouldn’t tell. Jessica tells her father and he says he never meant for the secret to cause this much trouble, but he doesn’t necessarily agree that Jessica did the right thing. He makes her apologize to him and Elizabeth.
At the party, (which is a tennis match), Amy and the other Unicorns learn Ithing from Lila. Later Amy calls Elizabeth mad and tells her if Jessica could tell Lila, She couldn’t have told her. Elizabeth offers to tell but Amy says it’s too late and that everyone knows it now. And Elizabeth finds out that’s true when all the class gang up on Mr. Gavin’s replacement (Mrs. McDonald) and upset her by speaking Ithing in class. All the students have a plan to speak Ithing in front of the district supervisor and get Mrs. MacDonald fired and Elizabeth’s conscience won’t allow it so she goes to her teacher to teach her Ithing. But surprisingly she’s already picked it up and surprises the class by answering Lila back in it. Amy and Elizabeth find out Mary’s mother is getting married. But when the invitation comes Jessica already knew about the wedding and did keep this secret. The twins are over ithing but their father is still all in with it
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My Thoughts: This DUMB language wasn’t worth all the trouble it caused in this book. ALL of this was Jessica’s fault from the start. When Caroline came up to them in the restaurant all she had to do was say “Caroline, I think you misheard.” That would have been my story and I would have stuck to it. You ain’t hear NOTHING! And then how close was Caroline that she overheard this in a pizza joint. Usually, in a pizza joint, the tv is playing, or music in playing, people are talking loudly etc. Either the Wakefields were shouting to the top of their lungs or Guido’s is so small the booths are on top of each other. Also if this is a SECRET language why was Jessica talking in it IN PUBLIC on the way to SCHOOL. Where it’s a possibility one of their classmates COULD overhear. A lot of times, Jessica just does not THINK about what she does, but then she wants to cry victim when the consequences turn around and bite her. I think Amy in this showed her TRUE COLORS of who she’ll actually become down the line in SVH (manipulative and PETTY). I thought it was cool that Mrs. MacDonald picked up Ithing and turned the tables around on her students. Personally, I never really liked this book. Everyone made a huge deal of this language and it was ANNOYING! It was annoying to read them speak in and honestly, sometimes I just skipped through it when they were speaking it. On this read, I thought I was getting a grasp of it that the ithing went in front of vowels but then it seems to go in front of letters that aren’t vowels (like L’s). So it’s not consistent. It’s really not even worth trying to wrap your head around. It was also really weird that the teachers were having a party in a classroom instead of the teacher’s lounge and invited a student to join them.
Rating: 5 I had a secret code in college that involved pagers with numbers with an ex and it was a lot easier to understand than Ithing.
Plot: Jessica is on pins and needles wondering what her father’s secret will be as she and Elisabeth wait for him to come home and take them out to dinner. Jessica keeps trying to get clues out of Elizabeth but she doesn’t know any more than Jessica does. They hear a noise that startles them and footsteps coming up from the basement. But it’s only Steven doing laundry. He’s trying to be more responsible and help Alice out (who's been working long hours). Their father's family comes home and reveals the secret is a secret language called ITHING.
At the restaurant, Mr. Wakefield tells about his childhood friend (Billy Fantana) and how this secret language was passed down from his father’s father. The rules go ithing goes between each syllable. Short ones like (I and am) have ithing at the end of the word. Elizabeth picks it up right away. Caroline comes over to their table at Guido’s and asks what she heard. Jessica says it’s a secret language and they can’t tell her (She could have just said you didn’t hear anything). Then she (Jessica) catches on after some tries.
Jessica speaks Ithing in front of her mother the next day, her brother, and Amy (on the way to school). But when Amy questions the twins they both tell her it’s nothing. The Unicorns confront Jessica at school about what Caroline heard. When Elizabeth sees them ganging up on Jessica, she jumps in to help her out and admits that Caroline heard them speaking a secret language taught to them by their father. Only Amy overhears and gets upset. So Elizabeth has to go after her and tell her the same thing. By lunch it’s no better, Amy gets into it again with Elizabeth and Lila tells Jessica she’ll never speak to her again. Jessica tries to plead that she promised her father but Lila doesn’t care. Elizabeth and Jessica end up eating together. Caroline and Amy have now been made temporary Unicorns and are sitting at their table. Jessica tries to get underneath their skin by speaking Ithing loudly, but they aren’t paying her any attention. So she goes over to the Unicorn’s table and asks how long will this last. Lila says it’ll end when she tells them the secret language.
After school, Elizabeth tries to make up with Amy (whose putting her off), but Lila interrupts and invites Amy to a benefit party for a famous tennis player (Chris Crosby). Elizabeth wonders what game Lila is playing. Later the twins even find out Steven was invited personally by Lila. At a Sixer’s meeting, Mary Robinson announces that her mother is seeing a new man and it’s going well. Mr.Bow man drops by and says he needs new ideas for the next issue. Amy mentions the party and Elizabeth volunteers her to write a piece on it *to Amy’s surprise*. After leaving the meeting, Elizabeth notices some of the teachers are having a celebration in one of other classrooms and she finds out that one of them (Mr.Gavin)’s wife just had a new son. When she gets home she finds an invitation in ITHING from Lila. As soon as Jessica gets home she confronts her. Jessica says it wasn’t worth losing their friends and she told Lila because she promised her that she wouldn’t tell. Jessica tells her father and he says he never meant for the secret to cause this much trouble, but he doesn’t necessarily agree that Jessica did the right thing. He makes her apologize to him and Elizabeth.
At the party, (which is a tennis match), Amy and the other Unicorns learn Ithing from Lila. Later Amy calls Elizabeth mad and tells her if Jessica could tell Lila, She couldn’t have told her. Elizabeth offers to tell but Amy says it’s too late and that everyone knows it now. And Elizabeth finds out that’s true when all the class gang up on Mr. Gavin’s replacement (Mrs. McDonald) and upset her by speaking Ithing in class. All the students have a plan to speak Ithing in front of the district supervisor and get Mrs. MacDonald fired and Elizabeth’s conscience won’t allow it so she goes to her teacher to teach her Ithing. But surprisingly she’s already picked it up and surprises the class by answering Lila back in it. Amy and Elizabeth find out Mary’s mother is getting married. But when the invitation comes Jessica already knew about the wedding and did keep this secret. The twins are over ithing but their father is still all in with it
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My Thoughts: This DUMB language wasn’t worth all the trouble it caused in this book. ALL of this was Jessica’s fault from the start. When Caroline came up to them in the restaurant all she had to do was say “Caroline, I think you misheard.” That would have been my story and I would have stuck to it. You ain’t hear NOTHING! And then how close was Caroline that she overheard this in a pizza joint. Usually, in a pizza joint, the tv is playing, or music in playing, people are talking loudly etc. Either the Wakefields were shouting to the top of their lungs or Guido’s is so small the booths are on top of each other. Also if this is a SECRET language why was Jessica talking in it IN PUBLIC on the way to SCHOOL. Where it’s a possibility one of their classmates COULD overhear. A lot of times, Jessica just does not THINK about what she does, but then she wants to cry victim when the consequences turn around and bite her. I think Amy in this showed her TRUE COLORS of who she’ll actually become down the line in SVH (manipulative and PETTY). I thought it was cool that Mrs. MacDonald picked up Ithing and turned the tables around on her students. Personally, I never really liked this book. Everyone made a huge deal of this language and it was ANNOYING! It was annoying to read them speak in and honestly, sometimes I just skipped through it when they were speaking it. On this read, I thought I was getting a grasp of it that the ithing went in front of vowels but then it seems to go in front of letters that aren’t vowels (like L’s). So it’s not consistent. It’s really not even worth trying to wrap your head around. It was also really weird that the teachers were having a party in a classroom instead of the teacher’s lounge and invited a student to join them.
Rating: 5 I had a secret code in college that involved pagers with numbers with an ex and it was a lot easier to understand than Ithing.
November 28, 2017
I had it all wrong, Amy is the real bitch in this series!
Why Elizabeth is friends with her, I'll never know.
Definitely not the greatest book in the SVT series, a stupid made up language with no purpose but to expose with a horrible friend Amy really is.
Why Elizabeth is friends with her, I'll never know.
Definitely not the greatest book in the SVT series, a stupid made up language with no purpose but to expose with a horrible friend Amy really is.
October 6, 2009
This book is awesome! I think everyone should read it. It includes an easy secret language that friends can use.
April 8, 2018
Oh for gosh sakes, Liz, lighten up. A secret language is NOT worth losing friends over, or for destroying your relationship with your sister.
I'm going to say this one annoyed me more than the other books I've read so far in this series. Jessica can't keep a secret to save her life, and expecting her to seems idiotic. Her father and her sister both know her very well, and her telling the world ten minutes after getting this secret should have come as no surprise for everyone.
Liz blows everything up in a great big melodramatic way, and of course the entire school gets in on the act, just to torture a teacher, who isn't as dumb as everyone thinks.
But what really drove me nuts was trying to read the withigords with all the ithig in them. I kept wanting to try and say them out loud which succeeded in making me look like an idiot too.
I'd give this one star, but because I liked the bonding moment between father and daughters, I'll give it two.
I'm going to say this one annoyed me more than the other books I've read so far in this series. Jessica can't keep a secret to save her life, and expecting her to seems idiotic. Her father and her sister both know her very well, and her telling the world ten minutes after getting this secret should have come as no surprise for everyone.
Liz blows everything up in a great big melodramatic way, and of course the entire school gets in on the act, just to torture a teacher, who isn't as dumb as everyone thinks.
But what really drove me nuts was trying to read the withigords with all the ithig in them. I kept wanting to try and say them out loud which succeeded in making me look like an idiot too.
I'd give this one star, but because I liked the bonding moment between father and daughters, I'll give it two.
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October 28, 2025Mr W teaches the twins a new language, Ithig. It's simple and I'm not entirely how anyone thought it would be a secret - all you need to do is add ithig to every syllable. However, instead of keeping the secret.. you know, SECRET, Jessica lets slip that they have a secret and before you know it, their friends aren't talking to the twins because they're keeping a secret. Lila even won't invite them to her party. So Jessica tells Lila. Lila tells everyone. Absolutely pointless. Possibly the most annoying book I've read so far.
August 21, 2023
Some re-reads years later just do not hold up. I get the “lesson” Pascal is trying to instill. For this “secret” to cause this much commotion and emotional upset is baffling, even from when it was written in 1987.
August 10, 2018
Growing up I have read every single book with the twins!! I was super addicted to this series!! Love it! Also loved the tv show to!
October 2, 2020
If only Jessica could learn to keep her mouth shut.
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September 6, 2021Don't mind me, I'm just feeling nostalgic and keeping track of one of my favorite book series.
February 3, 2023
Quite possibly the most ridiculous Sweet Valley book ever. And *that* is saying something.
March 26, 2023
Sweet Valley Twins 12 - Keeping Secrets
Ned has a secret. And he’s ready to share with the twins. It’s a secret language! (Sorry Jessi). He teaches the twins ithig (very similar to a made up language my friends and I spoke as teens), but they’re not supposed to talk it in front of anyone, so I’m not sure what the point is? Caroline (who overheard Ned teaching them apparently) tells everyone anyway, and all their friends are upset about being left out. Almost immediately they all gang up on the twins 🙄 Lila and Amy decide to plan a not so secret party and not invite the twins. And tons of celebrities are going (and Steven) so Jess is furious. Then Liz gets a written invitation - in ithig! She realises Jess gave in and blew the secret. The twins fight and Ned intervenes - but says although he understands why Jess told Lila, it wasn’t fair that Jess did it without telling him and Liz! Are you serious Ned?! Grow up 🙄 Jess goes to the party, but Liz refuses. Lila of course tells Amy how to speak ithig, so the secret is out, and everyone is speaking it. Amy is still angry at Liz (showing her real true SVH colours here…), but does a very sudden 180 and they make up. This book is not very well paced. Some of the kids (Lila, Charlie and Jim) decide to torture the new substitute music teacher, by only speaking ithig at her performance review. Liz and Amy refuse. Liz goes to warn the teacher - but she already speaks it. Liz is shoooook! But the teacher just worked it out because it’s frigging simple. So Lila gets shut down and humiliated in the class and throws a temper tantrum. The twins get over ithig, but Ned still speaks it 🙄
My rating - 2/10 - this book was not well written, and the characters were just behaving in unrealistic and caricature ways. A secret language is a cool plot but it wasn’t well executed.
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Ned has a secret. And he’s ready to share with the twins. It’s a secret language! (Sorry Jessi). He teaches the twins ithig (very similar to a made up language my friends and I spoke as teens), but they’re not supposed to talk it in front of anyone, so I’m not sure what the point is? Caroline (who overheard Ned teaching them apparently) tells everyone anyway, and all their friends are upset about being left out. Almost immediately they all gang up on the twins 🙄 Lila and Amy decide to plan a not so secret party and not invite the twins. And tons of celebrities are going (and Steven) so Jess is furious. Then Liz gets a written invitation - in ithig! She realises Jess gave in and blew the secret. The twins fight and Ned intervenes - but says although he understands why Jess told Lila, it wasn’t fair that Jess did it without telling him and Liz! Are you serious Ned?! Grow up 🙄 Jess goes to the party, but Liz refuses. Lila of course tells Amy how to speak ithig, so the secret is out, and everyone is speaking it. Amy is still angry at Liz (showing her real true SVH colours here…), but does a very sudden 180 and they make up. This book is not very well paced. Some of the kids (Lila, Charlie and Jim) decide to torture the new substitute music teacher, by only speaking ithig at her performance review. Liz and Amy refuse. Liz goes to warn the teacher - but she already speaks it. Liz is shoooook! But the teacher just worked it out because it’s frigging simple. So Lila gets shut down and humiliated in the class and throws a temper tantrum. The twins get over ithig, but Ned still speaks it 🙄
My rating - 2/10 - this book was not well written, and the characters were just behaving in unrealistic and caricature ways. A secret language is a cool plot but it wasn’t well executed.
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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***
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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***
January 14, 2016
This is #12 in the Sweet Valley Twins series and is, in some ways, somewhat disturbing. The twins' father teaches Jessica and Elizabeth a new 'language' (which results in some very annoying space-filling stuff). He gets both of them to promise not to tell anyone else the secret.
This leads to Amy getting mad at Elizabeth and all the Unicorns getting mad at Jessica. It's rather obvious which one of them will break first.
Then Elizabeth finds out that the entire music class plans to embarrass their substitute teacher in front of her evaluator by using the language in class. This shows just how nasty even elementary students can get towards their teachers. That kind of behavior should not be allowed under any circumstances.
The problem for Elizabeth is that if she tells the teacher then she will be breaking her promise. Things work out in a surprising way, though, and the story ends on a satisfactory note.
This leads to Amy getting mad at Elizabeth and all the Unicorns getting mad at Jessica. It's rather obvious which one of them will break first.
Then Elizabeth finds out that the entire music class plans to embarrass their substitute teacher in front of her evaluator by using the language in class. This shows just how nasty even elementary students can get towards their teachers. That kind of behavior should not be allowed under any circumstances.
The problem for Elizabeth is that if she tells the teacher then she will be breaking her promise. Things work out in a surprising way, though, and the story ends on a satisfactory note.
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January 10, 2023One book after Amy swears to Elizabeth that they'll be friends forever after treating her like dirt for most of the book... Amy treats Elizabeth like dirt for most of the book. Honestly, the girl has severe jealousy issues. Of course Liz is closer to Jess; that's only said in, what, every book ever? Anyway, Amy's sulk is far less annoying than the stupid 'secret' language this book is about, which is even worse to read than Pig Latin, and all over this. Worst of all, however, is stupid Ned Wakefield, who makes his daughters keep such a ridiculous, pointless secret, even from Alice and Steven, and who tells Jess she was wrong to explain the language to Lila, even after all of the twins' friends ostracise them for the most useless secret ever.
September 3, 2016
Oh my goodness, this was seriously more a Sweet Valley Kids book than a SVT one! Jessica and Elizabeth's dad teaches them a secret language and makes them swear on their lives not to tell anyone. But of course all their friends find out they have a secret and start cold shouldering them because they won't spill. So of course Jessica does and, just, sigh.
Although one bit near the start did kind of make me giggle. You know how when you're a kid you like Elizabeth best because she's so nice and good and down to earth? Well she was lamenting how all Jessica does is talk about boys and shoes and clothes and other girls and I was like, OMG that's so us and I would gladly have Jess in my gang!
Although one bit near the start did kind of make me giggle. You know how when you're a kid you like Elizabeth best because she's so nice and good and down to earth? Well she was lamenting how all Jessica does is talk about boys and shoes and clothes and other girls and I was like, OMG that's so us and I would gladly have Jess in my gang!
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February 5, 2009JAR4-Pas
October 24, 2010
The best middle schoolers ever to be captured in print. I loved growing up with the wakefield twins. They were awesome.
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August 29, 2011From "Books I have read this summer" list that I found at home in NJ.
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December 4, 2012Wow. These books were ridiculous, silly, albeit harmless trash, but damned if I don't involuntarily snarl every time I read Lila Fowler's name.
May 6, 2021
Loved these books as a child
June 22, 2013
I remember the cover just not the story
January 2, 2017
Jessica and Elizabeth learn a new language and learn that keeping secrets from friends is hard.
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