Young Adult Revisited

Lila like totally misses Mandy Miller. Ever since the Unicorn Club split into the Unicorns and the Angels. Mandy's been on the fence but seemingly spending more time with the other club. While getting ready for Earth Day at school, which requires that kids dress up, the other Unicorns borrow a bunch of her clothes, leave a huge mess in her room, and just take off without even bothering to help her pick out an outfit. She wishes Mandy were there to help. Lila stops by a booth the Angels set up for Earth Day to sell sugar-free granola cakes to raise money to preserve the rain forests. Mandy is so into it that Lila buys their entire supply. She keeps going on and on about how the rain forests are so important. Lila even convinces the other girls to leave and check out the other booths while she stays behind and helps clean up. In the hopes of bringing Mandy back into the fold, Lila convinces her to meet them at Casey's for ice cream. Not only does she offer to pay...

Back when I wrote a recap of Swiss Secrets, the first book in the Passport to Romance trilogy, I did not have this book. Here's hoping I manage to track down book number three! Nancy, George, and Bess head to Rome on their European adventure to meet up with Claudia, a friend they made in the last book. Claudia immediately introduces them to her friend Massimo, a jewelry designer and huge flirt. He falls all over Bess and offers her one of his new necklaces that looks like an authentic antique as long as she will dance with him at least once while in town. They then head to the shop where Claudia works to see some of his other pieces. They compare Bess's necklace to one of the new ones before she puts it back on. That night, Massimo asks where she got her new necklace and tells her that if she didn't like his, she didn't have to keep it. Bess says it's the same one as before, but he points out how different it is from his designs. Sandro, Claudia'...

So, it's Halloween again in Sweet Valley. Jessica can't wait to dress up as a cheerleader, but Liz isn't sure what she wants to be. While chatting on the bus, kids start picking on Caroline for seemingly no reason. Todd tells her that her hair is already orange and she should stop eating carrots. Their literally five seconds away from telling her that she has no soul. She later hears Elizabeth mention something about being a witch and bluntly tells her that she knows nothing about witches. Ah, poor poor Caroline, wait until high school and see if you still feel the same way. Their teacher takes them to the library and asks everyone to pick out a book about Halloween to present a paper on in front of the class. Liz picks out a book on witches and decides that Caroline might be an actual witch. She has a cat, which they see her with outside, they hear her reciting a spell, the twins catch her standing over a large pot in her kitchen, and she can apparently predict ...