Young Adult Revisited

Bobby Newkirk is a dick, and by dick, I mean the type of guy who goes through every girl in school and gets bored fast. After trapping one girl, Ronnie, in her locker and kissing her, he tells her that he might call her again. On his way to band practice, he sees another girl, Kimmy, who he stood up the night before for a “better” date. While at practice, he sees twins Bree and Samantha. He always thought about asking them out before but he couldn't decide between the two. Bobby makes a joke about dating them both in one weekend and decides that he should try it. Arnie's girlfriend Melanie warns him about playing girls. She dated him for three months before dumping him for cheating on her. Bobby sees Bree after school and asks her to come see their band play that Friday. He also suggests she become their lead singer, but she says it sounds more like something Samantha would like. Later that night, he calls Samantha and asks her to join the band, and she shoots...

You know how the Unicorns have been a little nicer and less selfish lately? Yeah, well that's all about to change. While hanging out with the kids they started working with earlier in the series, Jessica announces that Kimberly Haver is coming back. Apparently her dad got a job in Atlanta, but they all hated it there, so even though they just moved a few months ago, he took a job at another company. Jessica, Lila, and Ellen are all pretty excited, while Elizabeth, Maria, and Evie don't know what to expect. Mary Wallace, who narrates this one, isn't too excited because Kimberly constantly competes with her over everything. The school recently announced student council elections, and the convince Mary to put her name in the ring. Kimberly wants any of the girls who can to come over and spend the night with her before she starts school again. Jessica, Lila, Ellen, and Mandy go, while Mary stays home to work on her campaign. Kimberly shows up in school wearing...

I somehow ended up with this book, one in the middle of the series, and the last five or six books. Since I had no idea this series even existed until a few years later, I had to do a little reading to get caught up. Basically, this is the twins’ eighth grade year. Sweet Valley redid the school districts, and somehow the twins ended up at Sweet Valley Junior High, while all their other friends are still at Sweet Valley Middle School, including Winston who literally lives a block away, in the same direction as the new school . They no longer talk to any of their old friends because their new friends want nothing to do with them. Salvatore is Todd 2.0. He’s the guy who draws funny cartoons that the newspaper constantly rejects, and since this is still a Sweet Valley book, he has a mad crush on Elizabeth. He thinks about her all the time and can barely function around her. None of this sits too well with his best friend Anna because she recently developed a thing for him...

Fran comes home from working at McDonald's to find a purple envelope in the mailbox. Naturally, it is a new chain letter sent just to her. The book then jumps to Tony and Alison. They planned to both attend college in LA and stay together, but then Alison got accepted into NYU and decided to move across the country. They haven't had sex lately and they just keep fighting about her move. She's pissed that he brought it up yet again before they could have sex, while he's pissed that she's leaving him behind. He eventually walks out on her and seemingly breaks up with her. Since she has plans to go shopping for school clothes with Brenda, she heads over to her friend's house. Brenda says that Fran called her, so they head over there. Fran tells them about the letter, which has her task hidden in a secret message in the classified ads. They read the message, and it tells her to drown her puppy. Alison calls the other friends, but no one answers the...

Adam and his family just moved from the big city to the small town of Springville. While helping his dad carry furniture into the new house, his dad throws out his back and gives him some money to run and grab a pack of Coke from the store. He runs into a girl who introduces herself as Sally, helps herself to one of his drinks, and offers him a tour of the city. Sally tells him that all the kids call the town Spooksville because so many weird things happen there. She tells him about the girl who disappeared when a cloud came out of the sky and swallowed her whole, which her friend Watch saw happen. As they go near the grocery store, he sees a gorgeous black Corvette. As a shopping cart careens toward it, he throws himself in front of the car and Sally screams at him to stop. The woman is Ann Templeton, and she seems to know everything about Adam. She tells him that he’s much more polite than the other kids in town, makes a few cryptic comments, makes rude comments abou...

Samantha Byrd gets picked on by her classmates, especially this annoying girl Judith. Judith always tells her to fly away because her last name is Byrd, get it? Judith treats her badly when practicing basketball and at school, even spilling tapioca pudding over her brand new shoes in home ec class. After a particularly bad practice, she starts riding her bike home and comes across a mysterious woman. The woman, Clarissa, asks her for help because she got lost. Sam tells her how to get to where she needs to go and offers to show her the way. The woman is so grateful that she offers her three free wishes. Even though she doesn’t believe her, she asks to be the best player on the team and the woman grants her wish. Later that night, she plays a pickup game with her brother and sucks worse than usual. When he starts picking on her, she wishes that he was one foot tall. Suddenly she doesn’t see her brother and something small comes walking across the lawn. No worries thoug...

Freddy and his best friend Cara babysit for a little boy named Tyler and terrorize him with stories about werewolves. Right in the middle of one, the door flies open and they all get freaked until they realize it's just his parents. They walk home, and Freddy walks Cara to her house before heading back to his. Cara comes over the next day and they hang out in his basement playing air hockey. Things get a little rough, she starts chasing him around, and he crashes into a china cabinet. After it falls and breaks, they find a doorway that they never noticed before. Freddy and Cara both find flashlights and venture into the long tunnel behind the door. It leads them underground and into a room that is empty except for a coffin. Cara gets a little scared, especially when Freddy decides to open it. The only thing inside is a bottle with a label on the front that says Vampire Breath. They fight over it, and Freddy gets scared when Cara opens it. A weird mist fills the roo...