Young Adult Revisited

Kristy is worried about Emily because she isn’t learning fast and isn’t picking things up. Claudia winds up sitting for her and notices some of the problems. She works with her on colors for awhile and Emily seems to respond. Mrs. Thomas-Brewer later calls the BSC and asks for Claudia specifically, hoping she can work with her some more. Being around Emily makes Claudia doubt herself. It doesn’t help that Janine just won another award in school and her parents are going crazy over her. Claudia quickly decides she’s adopted and the more she thinks about it, the more she’s convinced that it’s the truth. She doesn’t look like her parents, she isn’t smart like them and things just don’t add up. She starts investigating her past and finds weird things. For one thing, her birth wasn’t announced in the local newspaper. Then she discovers a locked box, which she’s sure has her real birth certificate in it. She contacts her doctor for some information, only to learn that she had a differe...

Ah, the one where it all began. Jessica and Elizabeth are perfect size-6 wearing identical twins. Liz also has a crush on Todd Wilkins, the star of the basketball team. He smiled at her in the cafeteria and now she’s daydreaming about him. He actually calls for her, but Jess monopolizes the conversation and attempts to make her twin look bad. The two discover that day that they’ve made it into the most exclusive sorority on the Sweet Valley High campus, as did Enid Rollins, Cara Walker and a few other friends. Jessica runs into Todd, who is a member of the sister frat and tries to convince him to take her to a big upcoming dance, even though he’s more interested in her sister and what her sister’s plans are. Jess runs into the super sexy Rick Andover and he tells her that he’ll pick her up the next day. She’s go all out for their date: low cut red shirt, high heels and a short skirt. Then she keeps their date a big secret, which makes Liz think she’s going out with Todd. Rick tak...

Remember how Dawn kept saying she was never going to leave her mom? And how she was happy to be back? Yeah it turns out that it was all a lie because now she wants to move home. She kind of plays it off like she’s missed it all along, even though she hasn’t mentioned it since coming back. She’s sad because Sunny’s mom is in the hospital and she misses the beach, the sunshine and the warm weather. She calls her dad just to talk and when Carol’s on the phone, she lets it slip that she wants to move back. Carol is cool with it, tells her to talk to her mom and she’ll talk to her dad. As soon as Sharon comes home, Dawn announces that she wants to move back. Richard walks in on the conversation and both worry that she isn’t happy with them. She assures them that she loves everyone there, but wants to go home. Then she manages to change the subject, so Mary Anne won’t hear her. Dawn gets right to work planning for her trip. Eventually she decides to call Kristy, who is shocked that she...

Jessica comes up with a great idea for the twins annual April Fool’s Day trick. Instead of switching places like they always do, they’ll just pretend that they made a switch. They play up the way they look, so everyone will think they switched places. It works right from the start, with their whole family thinking they switched places. Liz just won a big essay contest and she gets to pick a free magazine subscription as her prize. The teacher calls Jess up, thinking she’s actually Liz, and she picks a teen music magazine. Then Jess fails a soufflé making dish in home ec and the teacher gives her a bad grade, but writes it next to Liz’s name. Liz gets an A, but the grade goes to Jess. Then Liz gets called out in class for a note Jessica wrote and given a detention. She gets another detention when the principal sees her running in the halls and thinks that she’s Jessica. The Unicorn Club grabs her and tells her she has to take part in a charity car wash. After washing the car, she di...

Claudia has apparently been playing the lottery for awhile now and when it hits $28 million, the rest of the BSC decides to play too. The deal is that if they win anything, they split it evenly and get Sharon to buy their tickets. Dawn hits all but one number and they end up winning just over $10,000, giving each member a little over $1,400. They decide to take their money and spend a few weeks in California with Dawn’s dad. Mallory gets a kind of big story because she decides that she wants to completely change her looks. She spends almost all of her money on makeup and hair dye, to dye her hair blonde. She spends the whole trip borrowing money from Jessi and trying to figure out why no one pays attention to her. She isn’t picked for demonstrations at Universal Studios or as an extra. Eventually she whines and pouts, until Kristy points out that she liked her better the other way. Stacey and Claudia buy her makeup and she pays Jessi back. Jessi also buys her a bottle of dye and t...

Paulette is totally blind and totally has a stalker, but she doesn’t realize it yet. She’s just riding along with her buddy Jonathon, who drives like a psycho and is taking her the Shadyside Music Academy where she practices her piano. As soon as she gets out of the car, another car comes flying out of nowhere and she’s almost hit. Luckily this hot guy Brad Jones saves her life. Brad’s a recent transfer student that works at the Academy and thinks she’s a great musician and pretty cute. She’s pretty smitten, especially when he comes over and asks for her phone number. Jonathon warns her that Brad has a bad reputation and was a criminal in his old hometown. She kind of blows it off, thinking that he seems nice enough. Brad calls that night and acts kind of weird. He keeps talking about how she’s perfect for him and it sounds like his voice has changed. Once again, she kind of blows the whole thing off. Paulette talks to her friend Cindy about the whole thing, but Brad interrupts. Ci...