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Sweet Valley High Super Edition #1: Perfect Summer

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How the hell have I gotten this far in this blog without doing this one?? I probably read this book a dozen times or more when I was a kid! So, it's the first summer in between the twins' junior and senior years. That means they won't confront some serial killer out to get revenge on Ned and that they won't be working in the newspaper office or heading to summer camp. Nah, those come later in the summer? This is the summer of the long ass bicycle trip. Sweet Valley High planned a trip for 10 kids and two chaperons. Roger Collins and Nora Dalton will be along for the ride. That makes things a wee bit uncomfortable because the two broke up and she's now back with George Fowler. Lila is less than thrilled about this new development. Also along for the ride is Barry, Chrome Dome Cooper's nephew. They all think he might be some super hot guy, but he's actually a nerdy and slightly overweight kid from Ohio. Here's the way it works: they s

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #139: The Secret of Candlelight Inn (1997)

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Bess, the same Bess who hates getting dirty, passed all the requirements to train a seeing eye dog and needs Nancy to go with her to the old Candlelight Inn to pick up her new puppy. The women who owned the inn inherited it from her family and ran it as a hotel before turning it into a private home. Before she died, she changed her will to leave the contents to her granddaughter and the property to Guiding Eyes, a nonprofit that trains seeing eye dogs. The girls arrive in time to see Bess's neighbor Amber running wild with her brother Devon and his girlfriend Marisa. Marisa is the granddaughter of the former owner and a blind woman herself with a seeing eye dog named Misty. She gives Bess a sewing machine that her grandmother owned and refuses to take any money for it. Bess picks up Casey, her new guide dog in training, and agrees to let Amber help her work with the dog. Before they can leave, Marisa gets a phone call from her friend Erik. He was arrested after tryi