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Sweet Valley High #131: Fashion Victim

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Jessica decides to chase after Cameron and explain that Quentin kissed her, she didn't kiss him, as if that will change things. He takes off so fast that she can't catch him though and winds up running into Quentin again. Quentin suddenly doesn't seem that interested in anything she has to say or with helping her become a supermodel. When she sucks up to him by putting her arm around him, rubbing all over his back, and acting like some sex starved maniac, he suddenly agrees to help her again and even take her out that night. They head to Edge, which is like the hottest club in the world. Though Jessica wants to date, Quentin sits them down at a table near the dance floor and proceeds to talk about himself all night. Jessica clearly isn't interested because the conversation isn't all about her. When famous people come over, he ignores her to talk. She finally butts in the middle of a conversation, which pisses him off. Jessica then gets ticked off when he ...

Sweet Valley High #130: Model Flirt

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Even though Elizabeth took one look at Todd with Simone and ran away before he could see her in the last book, he's now suddenly realized she was there. As she goes running away, he chases after her until she hides and then finds a way to escape. Elizabeth swears that she will never, ever forgive him for doing something like this, completely forgetting about all the times she did the exact same thing to him. Todd feels really terrible...at first. He tries to apologize multiple times and finally brings her a big bouquet of flowers. She tells the assistant who met him, through the intercom, that she isn't interested and never wants to see him again. Todd then decides to just go after Simone. She takes him to some fancy nightclub in LA, and he doesn't get home until two am. The next morning, his parents ground him. When Todd tells Simone what happened, she laughs like it's the funniest thing she ever heard and then convinces him to just sneak out to see her...

Sweet Valley High #129: Cover Girls

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Since even Sweet Valley High teachers get sick of their crap, the school decided to make the kids take two weeks off to do an internship. Jessica and Elizabeth get to work at Flair , which is like the hip and hottest fashion magazine. Todd and Lila both wind up working for their father's companies. Maria gets a spot working in the set department of a community theater, and Enid goes to work for some publisher. On the first day, Jessica insists that she'll win the heart of Quentin Berg, some big deal photographer. He'll fall in love and make her a supermodel, despite the fact that she's too short. Liz imagines herself becoming a huge writing star. What actually happens is that Quentin doesn't give a shit about Jessica and tells her to just get him his coffee. She winds up doing – gasp – manual labor like sweeping the floor and setting up props for him. Liz feels incredibly nervous when she gets there because all the girls kind of look like Jessica. T...

The Unicorn Club #23: Trapped in the Mall

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Kimberly Haver is like way more mature, responsible, and sophisticated than any other member of the Unicorn Club. I know this because she says it roughly 387 times in this book. The girls are all at the mall hanging out before Lila's driver picks them up and takes them back to her house for the night. Kimberly is already annoyed that the girls hate her favorite movie star when they come across an ad for an older movie. Since she remembers seeing it in the theater when she was a whopping six years old and her friends don't, she just rolls her eyes and thinks about how she's so much older than them. Lila then makes the mistake of seeing someone and trying to cover it up, but it turns out that she has a crush on Jerry McAllister. Even though he's always been a dick, she suddenly likes him. Kimberly suggests asking him if he likes Lila, but Lila flips out and runs off to do some more shopping, though she does pause to wonder if maybe he really does like her. ...

Sweet Valley High #86: Jessica Against Bruce

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Bruce Patman is totally fed up with how lame Sweet Valley is and wants something that will rock all their socks off. That's what convinces him to come up with an idea for Club X. He shows up at school one day with a black leather motorcycle jacket on that has a big X in white across the back. Then Ronnie Edwards starts wearing the same jacket. Before long, Tad Johnson joins their crew. Though everyone wants to know the deal, Bruce just tells them that it's his new secret club. Only members can know what they do. Jessica decides that she wants to join, but Bruce refuses because it's a club just for dudes. Lila, Amy, and Jessica all agree to do whatever it takes to get an invite and find out the big secret. This leads to a huge fight in the middle of the cafeteria with the girls pointing out all the things women did in the past and the guys claiming that they're just better. Bruce finally breaks down and says the girls can join, but to no one's surprise, Am...

The Baby-Sitters Club #6: Kristy's Big Day

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We're going way back in time for this one, to a time when Elizabeth, Kristy's mom, and Watson finally set their wedding day. They ask all the kids to be involved in the ceremony. Kristy is the bridesmaid, Charlie will give her away, Sam will be the best man, Karen will be the flower girl, and I can't remember what the heck David Michael does. Andrew says he doesn't want to be part of it at all. Things quickly go to hell in a hand basket. Elizabeth finds out that work needs to send her on a trip during the original wedding date. She pushed the wedding date back and then got a call that someone wants to buy the house and wants them out in a month. The end result is that they need to get married in two weeks. She flips out and immediately starts going through the house before deciding to focus on the wedding plans. Multiple people, including family and friends, offer to help. Both of Kristy's aunts announce that they're coming to town early, and so ...