Young Adult Revisited

Sweet Valley Middle School is hosting a fundraising carnival and all the kids want to run booths. The school decides to do a lottery and have everyone randomly draw the name of a different booth. Jessica is sure that she will get to run the Wheel of Fortune, but Caroline Pierce actually gets in on the first draw. Jess gets stuck with the water balloon booth, which is the worst booth. Amy is devastated because she really wants to go to the fair, but she has to babysit for the Sampson family. She keeps moping around until Elizabeth offers to take the job from her. Amy warns her that the kids are monsters, but Liz agrees to take the job. She asks Jessica to take a message when Mrs. Sampson calls that night. Jessica takes the message, but starts seeing dollar signs when she learns the job pays $70. She calls Mrs. Sampson back and takes the job for herself. Elizabeth is pissed, but just tells her not to ask for help. Then, since the fair needs someone to work that booth so ba...

Sarah Thomas is a little sad and not because she never appears in any other Sweet Valley series. No, she’s sad because her dad is dating a hot young thing named Annie and you just know that all girls named Annie in town are horrible people! At first, Annie took her shopping and did fun stuff with her, but now she doesn’t give a shit about Sarah. When she comes home from school, she finds Annie painting her nails. She asks Sarah to clean up the lunch dishes, which are actually lunch and breakfast dishes because she didn’t do any cleaning all day. When her dad comes home, Annie takes all the credit and pouts because he has to go out of town for work. Annie wants sushi, which makes Sarah sick, but her dad lets Annie pick because after all, she did all that cleaning. Annie also wants to go to the movies and leave Sarah at home alone, even though Sarah doesn’t like being in the house alone. So dad goes out of town on Monday morning and leaves Annie in charge until he g...

Mrs. Gonzalez, Dawn’s science teacher starts an ecology program for the class. Stacey is in another session, but gets the same project. The two girls talk and decide that they should teach a class for kids in the neighborhood. The teacher agrees to let them work together because it would be a great project for the class. The girls end up with a lot of neighborhood kids, like the Kormans, Buddy, Nicky, Vanessa, David Michael, Suzy, Andre and Karen. In the middle of the first class, Dawn mentions that there is only one recycling center in the whole town and wonders why there aren’t more. That leads to a new idea about creating a recycling center at SMS. She goes to Mrs. Gonzales, who agrees with her proposal and lets her meet with the vice-principal. He agrees to let her start the program, as long as the students vote on it and want the program. Dawn turns into an environmental Nazi, constantly attacking people in the halls and demanding that they recycle. The votes...

Jessica really wants to go to Malibu for the summer because Lila got a job working as a nanny for a rich family, even though the family has a bunch of other helpers. Liz wants to work at the newspaper, but their parents decided Jess could only go if Liz does too. Lila makes her feel bad by claiming that Jessica wants this more than anything so of course she caves. Lila tells Jess that babies are better than older kids because all they do is sleep (ha!). She learns that the agency has two families available in Malibu, one with a baby and one with a younger, troubled girl. When she discovers that the family with the baby is related to her new favorite singer Tony Seargant, she decides to take that one. Liz has to cover for her during the interviews because of cheerleading camp and discovers that Jess’s house is teeny tiny. Jess still wants it because of the Tony connection. Also, she doesn’t believe that it’s really small until she sees it for herself. Liz gets a j...

Mary Anne has a sitting job at the Kuhn house, which isn’t doing so well. Jake is really upset over his parents’ divorce because his dad moved to Texas and never gets a chance to visit. He comes home in tears because Buddy invited him to his mom’s wedding. He’s also upset because Buddy now has two dads and he has none. Mary Anne decides that the best thing is to get Logan. She asks him to come over and hang out with Jake every now and then, giving him a male presence in his life. Logan starts coming over a lot and spending all of his free time with Jake. They play soccer, do guy stuff and just hang out. Mary Anne decides not to tell Mrs. Kuhn because she doesn’t want to upset her. Cut to Mrs. Kuhn coming home one day and finding Logan in the kitchen. She immediately thinks he is there as Mary Anne’s boyfriend and he runs out without contradicting her. Mrs. Kuhn calls the club and lodges a complaint. All of the girls act shocked that Mary Anne would invite a guy ov...

Claudia is sitting in her room, hugging herself and feeling sad because she doesn’t have a boyfriend. She makes a list of things she wants in her perfect guy, including being a good listener, lots to talk about, artistic and muscular. Stacey catches her and after later telling her what she was doing, she gives her some feedback on her list. Stacey then shows her a personal ads column and they get the idea to one for the middle school. Emily is completely on board with the idea and gives her half a page in the newspaper. Of course it’s a huge success and everyone in school submits an ad. They eventually get another half page, just to compensate for all the letters. Claudia also finds a few letters that peak her interest. One is a guy who says he likes to swim and sketch. His name is Brian and they go on a date, but it’s a disaster because he barely talks. He reveals that he likes to assemble model cars and sketch the finished cars. Then she goes out with Richard/Ro...

Abby, Anna and their mom are heading off to the Hamptons for a vacation with her grandparents. Gram and Grandpa apparently have an annual anniversary party with some huge theme and this year they are going out early and helping. Gram wants to celebrate with an Alice in Wonderland storyline. From the moment they get there, Abby notices that her grandma seems a little different. She keeps taking naps all the time, her grandpa who recently had heart surgery constantly worries about her and she’s uptight about the party. She keeps pointing out people that can’t make it and acting upset about it, but then refuses to call them and ask them to come. Gram asks Abby to run in and find the party menu in her room and when she can’t find it, Abby does a little snooping. She finds a pamphlet on breast cancer and realizes that her grandma is sick. She takes it upon herself to call everyone that couldn’t come to the party. She calls her uncle and he rearranges her plans and the...