Young Adult Revisited

The twins are running around and playing like usual when they see Lois by herself. They pick her up and then run into Amy. Amy invites them all to come with her to the movies that night, but Lois can't come because her mom wants to take her to that movie over the weekend. She also reveals that her and her mom watched a movie together they night before and had more plans together. Her grandmother passed away, and since her dad is also gone, her mom depends on her a lot. Todd then shows up and invites them to come and play baseball with some other kids. Lois does really badly as usual but then helps make a double play. All the kids love her, but she needs to suddenly leave because her mom wants to take her to a restaurant for dinner. The twins feel bad that her grandmother died but feel even worse that her mom won't give her a break. It's in the middle of a major heat wave in Sweet Valley. The twins sleep in the den, which is the only room with an AC, and talk w...

Nancy, Bess, and George are all taking ballet classes with Mr. McGuire, a former professional dancer, and random kids like Gregory, Deirdre, her best friend Grace, and Andrea. Gregory offers Bess some cookies and busts up laughing when she tries to eat one because they're fake cookies he took from his sister's play kitchen. He loves playing pranks on all the girls. Mr. McGuire comes in with some big news: the “glass” slippers he had specially made for the big recital just come in and he wants to show them off. Gregory launches one at Bess who freaks out when it drops because she expects it to shatter. The shoes are actually made from a type of hard plastic. Mr. McGuire tells them that no one can touch the shoes and yells at Deirdre for even trying to take photos. The other big news is that Autumn, the girl picked for the lead role, hurt her leg and can no longer dance. That makes Andrea, the understudy, the new lead dancer in Cinderella. Nadine, another dancer, fr...

All the kids, or at least all the girls, at SVMS keep hanging out at Casey's because they love Joe, the college guy he hired to work there. Joe is super friendly and nice to everyone. He gives them extra ice cream, makes the best treats, and he even volunteers as a clown to help out at the children's hospital and other places. Joe also got all the girls interested in brainteasers and keeps giving them puzzles to figure out. The only downside to hanging out there is Jeff Casey, the owner's nephew. He clearly doesn't like kids and keeps telling Joe to get to work and complaining about the kids wasting his time. Jeff interrupts them and tells Joe to do some work while complaining under his breath about how the shop isn't his yet. Joe needs to do a good job because he wants to cut out early for a performance. Jessica realizes that they are out of pads at a very inconvenient time and asks Liz to go and buy some more. Liz tells her no because she's all...

Despite the fact that she made the decision to dump both Todd and Devon, Elizabeth can't stop moping around about how she's lonely and misses them both. She joins the prom planning committee to take her mind off things, only to find out that Todd also joined. They start spending a lot of time together, which leads to weird moments like Todd wanting to kiss her ankle and telling her she has perfect ankles while holding a ladder. Liz realizes that she really misses him and all the time they spent together. Jessica and Lila get so caught up with finding the perfect dresses that they completely forget about finding dates. They decide to rank the hot guys at Sweet Valley and write down lists of their best and worst qualities. For example, Aaron has really sexy legs but is also cranky. Bruce kisses like a live jellyfish, and Peter DeHaven is cruel because of how he treated Johanna. Liz rushes off to a meeting and can't find her notebook, so she takes Jessica's...

Todd is all in shock that Jessica would accuse his beautiful and wonderful girlfriend of cheating on him for the 400 th time and kind of refuses to believe it. She tells him exactly where to find them and then throws herself at him. In her eyes, it's the perfect payback to her twin stealing her man. Todd turns her down and tells her to help herself to the feast he made for Liz before leaving. He drives around town before heading to the school, and after seeing Liz and Devon still going at he, he just takes off. Jessica devours the lobster salad and all the other stuff Todd made for her twin while fuming to herself. After eating way too much, she decides to get back at Liz. Liz and Devon are still freaking making out until it starts raining. She heads home while feeling like she's walking on air, only to find Jessica waiting for her. Jess makes a few comments and then tells Liz she looked for her. Liz keeps making up excuses until Jess drops the news that she s...

Have I mentioned yet exactly how much I hate this Devon kid? I thought I could never despise anyone as much as I despised Sam in Sweet Valley University, but here we are. So, in case you missed it, Devon is totally in love with Elizabeth Wakefield after seeing her exactly once. Lucky boy gets assigned to be her lab partner in chemistry, and by the way, Liz is in AP chemistry, which is something I think no one ever mentioned before. He wows her on the first day by mixing different chemicals together to make a mixture that is the same color as her eyes. Liz gets all blushy and flustered because no one guy has ever been so attentive to her. Excuse me while I go give Todd a hug. Jessica hears through the grapevine about the hot new guy and decides that he must be hers. She sees him once and decides that he's her new boyfriend. She rushes home to interrupt Todd and Liz on a date just to talk about the new guy. Todd basically rolls his eyes and feels bad for the guy. That...

Carson decides to take Bess, George, and Nancy to his clients' house for a holiday party. Mr. and Mrs. Gangi have twin daughters, Jo and Mia, and invited family and friends to their party. He tells the entire group that his grandfather had a special carousel horse built for the grounds but that it later went missing. The twins found the horse accidentally, and he wants to reveal it to everyone as a special celebration. Before he can though, the girls suddenly start screaming. It turns out that Mr. Gangi wanted to let the kids play and try to grab the brass ring like carousel riders did in the good old days. Someone stole the brass ring though and left behind a note to leave the horses alone or face big trouble. It was signed TG, which are the initials of the owner's grandfather. Bess volunteers Nancy to solve the mystery, which the adults agree to for who knows why. Nancy notices Brenda there, but Brenda refuses to explain why she didn't follow the screams l...