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Forest Hills Bootleg Society | Nicole Goux, Dave Baker
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This 90s/2000s-inspired anime spread is an absolute delight. I‘m pretty sure I know most of these 😆 #Nostalgia #Anime

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JenlovesJT47
Special Christmas | Francine Pascal
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This is a fun SVH Christmas book. Todd is still in Vermont & is coming to see Liz over the break. But she‘s not sure if they still have that spark anymore. Meanwhile, Suzanne Devlin, who terrorized Liz & her friends the last time she visited, is coming for Christmas. She says she‘s changed & is sorry & wants to make it up to everyone, but Jess doesn‘t buy it. She comes up with some pretty mean pranks to try to get her to leave. But Suzanne has ⬇️

JenlovesJT47 A secret: she has multiple sclerosis & doesn‘t want anyone to know. One of Jess‘s pranks backfires badly when Suzanne mixes champagne & her experimental medication & she wrecks the Fiat. Oh, & she & Todd kind of have a thing for each other & Liz gives her blessing in the end. Oh oh, & she doesn‘t actually have MS, the doctors misdiagnosed her & she will be fine. I expect nothing less from Sweet Valley. 😆 4⭐️ 80 points 4d
JenlovesJT47 Also, time spent reading on 12/17: 2 hours = 60 points for 3 readathons #ReadAway2024 #Adventathon #LittenListen 4d
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JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS have you read this one? I was shook when I got to the part where the twins, Steven & Suzanne are getting ready to leave for a Christmas party & the Wakefield Parentals gave them a bottle of champagne! I have zero recollection of that lol. Don‘t remember them ever doing something like that 😳 4d
TorieStorieS I haven‘t read this one in probably 20 years!! And while I do remember Suzanne Devlin, I totally don‘t remember the champagne!! 🍾 🤯 4d
JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS I had only read it once before, 8 years ago when I was doing my SVH read-through, and I really don‘t remember that. I guess it‘s just a plot device, because Suzanne crashed the Fiat after drinking the champagne mixed with her medication. It was just so weird seeing the Wakefields nonchalantly leave their kids a bottle of champagne 😆 4d
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JenlovesJT47
Big for Christmas | Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne
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The twins are tired of being treated like little kids. They‘re invited to a party with both middle schoolers & high schoolers & their brother Steven is so embarrassed by them. So he tells the Parentals that it‘s going to be a wild & crazy party, then the twins are forbidden to go. They end up at a Christmas carnival & make a wish at a wishing well to be grown up. They wake up the next morning in the bodies of college-aged women. They get jobs ⬇️

JenlovesJT47 And are actually fairly successful at them, but they decide they‘d rather be 12 again. A fun Sweet Valley take on the movie Big or 13 Going on 30. 5⭐️ 80 points. #SweetValley #SweetValleyTwins #SVT #twins #nostalgia #Christmas #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons 1w
JenlovesJT47 Also spent 4 hours 30 minutes reading yesterday = 225 points #ReadAway2024 #LittenListen #Adventathon #OatmealEscapeReadathon #MidDecemberReadathon 1w
TorieStorieS I love them driving and the nods to their future cars! 🤣 5d
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JenlovesJT47
Trapped in Toyland | Francine Pascal, Molly MIA Stewart
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Well this is a 7-year-old‘s fantasy come to life — the twins get trapped in a huge department store on Christmas Eve. Some Home Alone hijinks ensue when they cross paths with a thief. They trap him in the toy department then are rescued just before midnight. Fun fun. 5⭐️ 80 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#SweetValley
#SweetValleyKids
#SVK
#twins
#nostalgia

TorieStorieS Definitely Home Alone inspired!! 🤣 5d
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JenlovesJT47
Holiday Mischief | Francine Pascal
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This is another super edition I haven‘t read since I was a kid & it was a lot of fun! SVMS‘s choral group is going to Washington, D.C., to perform in a music competition in December. The twins cover for their friend, Anna, who can‘t sing a lick but wants to go to D.C. to meet her long lost sister. Jess & Anna sneak out to the Australian embassy (where her sister lives) & catch a spy who‘s threatening national security. Because of course they do.😆

TorieStorieS This one is a fun one! 1w
JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS I loved this one. The rivalry with that witchy Sherrie was really funny. I had forgotten almost everything about this book. 1w
TorieStorieS I love the rivalries that spring up throughout the series! Sherrie is really a rat, though! 🤣 7d
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JenlovesJT47
The Case of the Magic Christmas Bell | Francine Pascal, Molly MIA Stewart
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A fun Christmas fantasy where Jessica‘s toy elf, a present from Great Aunt Helen, comes to life and tasks the Snoopers club with finding a missing magic bell that belongs on Santa‘s sleigh. Would that we all had such chill parents when we were 7 years old. 😆 4⭐️ 80 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#Christmas
#SweetValley
#SweetValleyKids
#SVK
#twins
#nostalgia

TorieStorieS Great Aunt Helen always is the best!! 2w
JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS yes! I was trying to figure out the other day where she belongs in the Wakefield family tree. I was a huge nerd for the SV sagas. 🤓 2w
TorieStorieS How did I never look for her in the family tree?? I think she‘s Ned‘s aunt, but I don‘t remember her being in his side of the family‘s story… I am enjoying these SVT books, but I am really looking forward to getting to the high school and college ones!!! 2w
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JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS yes me too. I‘ve never read the SVU books and I‘m very excited lol. Have to finish Senior Year first but I think I‘m going to finish the other two series before I pick those up again. 2w
TorieStorieS I‘m getting to some new-to-me SVT books which is exciting! I‘m looking forward to the re-reading of the later books, but I‘ve definitely read all of them before (some many more times than others!)! And I am still looking for those last few unicorn club books (and one senior year) that aren‘t on the archive but I haven‘t had any luck yet! And the online prices are still obscene! 2w
TorieStorieS Plus the SVU books are so much fun! Such drama (more dead boyfriends, surprise hookups…) I am so excited for you to read them for the first time! I am having such fun and so happy to share in this fun experience with you!!😊 (edited) 2w
JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS 🤗 same! I read I think maybe 3 SVU books total. Just the first 2 plus another random one. But I‘ve heard things over the years lol. Since you haven‘t done your SVH read through yet you should keep track of all the dead boyfriends and serial killers 😂😅 sooo many. Jess would be in therapy for life! 2w
TorieStorieS @JenlovesJT47 For sure!! I will continue to count holidays and add tallies for the dead (and undead— one of them dates a vampire as I recall!)🤣 2w
JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS ah yes, the vampire books! And Liz dates a werewolf as well. I love those books. 🤓 2w
TorieStorieS @JenlovesJT47 How could I forget the werewolf in London!!! 🤣🤣🤣 I mean this series really has it all!! 2w
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JenlovesJT47
A Christmas Without Elizabeth | Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne
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This was one of my favorites growing up & I forgot how much fun it is. It‘s the Sweet Valley spin on It‘s A Wonderful Life & it is hilarious. Nostalgia at its finest! What would happen if Elizabeth had never been born? Well, brace yourselves: the Wakefields are divorced, Steven has a tattoo (😳😦), the Unicorn club is now known as the Sharks 🦈 (😅) and they smoke cigarettes. Denny & Sarah are dead, Jessica is unpopular & unfashionable. ⬇️

JenlovesJT47 I haven‘t had this much fun reading a Sweet Valley book in a long time! So hilarious, yet also heartwarming at the end. 5⭐️ #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons #SweetValley #SweetValleyTwins #SVT #nostalgia #twins #Christmas 80 points @LiseWorks 2w
TorieStorieS This one was always my favorite #SweetValleyChristmas!! 2w
JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS yep! I‘m saving The Magic Christmas and The Evil Twin for closer to Christmas Day. 🤓 I swear I have read the Evil Twin at least 30+ times! 2w
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TorieStorieS I love The Evil Twin— and the sequel! 2w
JenlovesJT47 @TorieStorieS yes! The sequel is just as campy and fabulous as the first one lol. What‘s better than one “evil twin”? Two!! 😅😅😅 2w
TorieStorieS Precisely!!! 🤣 2w
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 3w
Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank You 🙏🏻 3w
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JenlovesJT47
Left-out Elizabeth | Francine Pascal, Molly MIA Stewart
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It‘s winter break & the Wakefields & Todd‘s family go on vacation to a ski chalet. Liz is looking forward to spending time with Todd but he soon ditches her for an older boy named Mark, making her feel left out. Todd is being his usual annoying self displayed on full glory in the SVH books. 😆 They make up after Todd gets grounded for going on the intermediate slopes against his parents‘ wishes. 4⭐️ 80 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons

TorieStorieS They do a fair amount of skiing in general in this series, I think! 3w
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JenlovesJT47
Jumping to Conclusions | Francine Pascal
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Mrs. W. has been spending a lot of time with her wealthy client, Frank. She & Mr. W. forget their anniversary. Jess quickly jumps to conclusions & thinks Mrs. W. is getting ready to run off with Frank & convinces Liz & Steven that their parents are headed for divorce. They quickly come up with some crazy schemes to make Frank think their family is a nightmare & hope he will run for the hills. This one was so funny! As pictured here, Jess stalks⬇️

JenlovesJT47 Mrs. W. and Frank at the mall & sees them looking at engagement rings. Jess is nuts but you gotta love her. 4⭐️ #SweetValley #SweetValleyTwins #SVT #twins #nostalgia #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons #TBRread 55 points @LiseWorks 3w
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