Welcome to Litsy!

The Wakefield grandparents are in town and they take Steven and the girls to The Old West Town, a place where the guests dress up in old western attire, eat at a saloon, ride a stagecoach and pan for gold. Steven bullies Liz saying girls can‘t be cowgirls, being very sexist throughout the book. Liz teaches him a lesson when she helps stop a would-be stagecoach robber (the kids didn‘t realize it wasn‘t real and was part of the experience). ⬇️

Mrs. Becker is getting married and the whole class is invited! The class decides to get Mrs. B. a fancy apple paperweight for a wedding gift and each kid has to chip in $2. The twins run a lucrative lemonade stand and make $3 in one day (😅) even though Jess bails about 5 minutes in to go to the park. Luckily Todd saves the day. A few days later, Jess sees all of that shiny lemonade money and decides to take it with her when she goes to the ⬇️

The 2nd grade class takes a field trip to the zoo and Mrs. Wakefield accompanies them as chaperone. Jess gets her panties in a twist because she expects special treatment from her mom, but her mom ends up scolding her several times in front of the other students. Jess takes off in a huff, and Liz, Todd & Winston follow. All is well when Jess finds the baby chimp that was missing from the monkey exhibit and the zoo decides to name the chimp ⬇️

A famous children‘s author, Angela Daley, is coming to visit Mrs. Becker‘s 2nd grade class, and the kids have been tasked with doing some kind of project for her to earn the spot of helping her autograph books for the students. Liz decides to write a story. Jessica finds the 1st draft of her story in trash, not knowing what Liz is using it for, and decides to pass it off as her own. She realizes her mistake on the big day and comes clean to ⬇️

The twins decide to camp out in their backyard in a tent with some of their friends. Lila is hesitant to go but Liz can‘t figure out why. Todd sneaks over to help Steven scare the girls at night. Then Liz wakes up to hear Lila crying. Turns out she still occasionally wets the bed and was scared to come, but Jess and Liz swear they will never tell a soul and all is well. 3.5⭐️ #SweetValley #SweetValleyKids #SVK #twins #nostalgia

I might me biased because I love cats, but I thought this was adorable! Jess & Liz find a stray cat in the bushes at their house and decide to hide her in their room. Steven and their dad are allergic so it gets pretty tricky. The cat is officially out of the bag when the twins think Misty the cat is sick, so they tell their mom. Turns out Misty is having kittens and the whole family has a picnic in the room while watching her give birth. 😆 ⬇️

There‘s a new student in the class from Jamaica. Her name is Eva, and Liz is tasked with showing her around school and the town. Jess quickly becomes jealous, along with Liz‘s best pal Amy. So Jess and Amy start hanging out to make Liz jealous. Jess and Lila also start fighting, and pretty soon nobody is talking to each other. But sweet Eva devises a plan to bring everyone together in the end, and everyone is friends again. 4⭐️

In book 3 of SV Kids, Mrs. Becker is out with the flu and the twins get not one but two different substitute teachers. The first was a pushover but the second, Mr. Marshall, won‘t put up with any shenanigans from the kids. Rumors start flying after a bunch of the kids are hanging out in the park on the weekend and see Mr. Marshall get in the back of a police car. They are convinced he is an escaped criminal! Turns out he is actually a police ⬇️

Book 2 in the Sweet Valley Kids series has Jess and Liz taking the class hamster Tinkerbell home with them over winter break. Jess thinks he looks like a rat and doesn‘t want anything to do with him. Saint Liz is the model pet owner, naturally. Chaos ensues when Jess accidentally leaves the cage open and they buy a new one to try to pass it off as Tinkerbell. All is well when they find Tink a few weeks later, so now the class has 2 hamsters. 🐹

I recently found a treasure trove of free books online (will add link in comments) and I have spent the last few days downloading every Sweet Valley book they had. I decided to read through the SV Kids series along with my SVT read-through and SV Senior Year. Yes, I am a nerd but I‘ve never read this series and I love the feeling of nostalgia I get when I read any Sweet Valley book. 🤓 I fully credit Sweet Valley books for my love of reading. ⬇️