![]() ![]() However it happened, once I entered the sunny world of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, I didn't want to leave.īecause I've always been one to follow the rules, I started with #1, Double Love, where both Jessica and her twin sister Elizabeth are vying for the same guy, Todd Wilkins, the star of the basketball team. ![]() Maybe I was attracted to the fact that it was a series, the promise of infinitude in those ivory spines lined up along a shelf, the promise that I could not only escape into the world of a book, but that I could escape for a long time, as long as the series kept expanding. I was in fifth grade when I discovered the books, although I don't remember how. ![]() And people nod in approval.īut the answer I don't usually give is that my favorite books, the ones I read and re-read until the covers were creased and the pages were loosed from the spine, were Sweet Valley High. I tell them about my brilliant fourth-grade teacher, Miss Artis, who assigned us Johnny Tremain and Where the Red Fern Grows and Tuck Everlasting, all books that made an impression on me. ![]() Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sweet Valley High Subtitle Three Novels: Double Love/Secrets/Playing with Fire Author Francine Pascal ![]()
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