To tell you Sweet Valley High books are on Kindle Unlimited!

@Watermelonistheanswertoallthings thank you so much I am having a lovely time reading them !

Wrong Kind of Girl was the first SVH i read. The one about Annie Whitman

I was reading SVH in the 80s as each book was coming out on the first Thursday of every month. So if i had kept mine they would all be first editions.
I was too old by the time Point Horror came out but i would have loved them. And in the first couple of pages of the SVH first editions they would have the month and year they were released printed inside. Book 38 Leaving Home was September 1987

I LOVED these books..had a collection of them along with sweet dreams and point horrors.
My mum even borrowed some of my sweet dream books!(and I sneaked some of her Mills and boon)
I remember the front covers more than the stories themselves.
Can remember them volunteering at the hospital being "candy stripers"(?)and wearing cute pink and white outfits..and wondering what the heck they were actually doing!
The book popularity summer was one of my favourites,thanks for reminding me @MonkeyTennis34
I used to read a SD book a night sometimes.
I'm still a huge reader now,but nothing compares to how excited I would get for new SVH and SD books.

Wasn't there one where Elizabeth was in a coma? Or was that Jessica?

Jessica had a dirt biker boyfriend called Sam!

I liked the twins when they were in 12th grade too. Loved Lila Fowler and the Unicorns. Purple is my favourite colour.

I feel so nostalgic for the 90s.

Kidnapped wasn't Bruce, Elizabeth was Kidnapped by a hospital janitor while she was doing volunteer work there. And the fact that I remember that is scary 😂

They were so good but so ludicrous! I remember one where they went to London and there was a werewolf, and one where they went to work as au pairs for a French royal family and the Prince asked Elizabeth to marry him 😂

Omg!!
Sweet Valley High!!!!!

I also LOVED the Sweet Dreams books.
They were always based around a girl whose personal fulfilment could only be achieved by finding a boyfriend, so different to YA storylines now think god!

One springs to mind called Popularity Summer where Frannie (how the hell do I remember that?) challenged herself to kiss as many boys as she could over one summer....hmm, todays version might be slightly less PG 😂

I'm in the UK. Whenever I try to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited my request is declined. Think it said not available in this country.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

The lavalieres puzzled me in pre-Google Essex too. I was obsessed with the sunny cheesy glamour of these books as a child and the gaps in my reading history bugged me so much that as a (in my mind) very cool 17-year-old, I spent 90% of a funky Greenwich house party hiding out and reading one that I'd missed at the time and spotted on the host's bookshelf!

I saved all the books I could get my hands on, in jumble sales and library clearouts plus the University series that came out just as I got a weekend job in the West End but then lost them in a house move. I replaced a load from eBay a decade later and they are still in a case under my bed now.

I suspect 13-year-old DD would be horrified by a lot of the content if I shared them with her today. May have to have a nostalgic summer re-read and give her the trashiest to giggle over once I'm done. The Todd bike crash (book two maybe) was my SVH intro when I read it at a neighbour's house one rainy day but my favourite was one of the holiday specials where Elizabeth was babysitting somewhere Hamptons-esque and fell in love with a(nother) tormented young man😆

Sweeeet vaaaalley, oh sweet valley, hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-igh-igh-igh (oh sweet valley).

Apparently I know that theme tune off by heart.

Amazing!! Thats my next sick day entertainment sorted!

Yesssssssssss.

elisabeth and jessamyn whose mother Alice emigrated from Sweden and met one of the Wakefield men on the boat. Jessamyn was killed in a horse riding circus accident?
samantha and Amanda were during the prohibition era? One of them died tragically too.

how do I remember this!?

There's an excellently snarky podcast called Double Love that has the hosts rereading the SVH catalogue.

I LOVED the SVH books! Talk about Memory Lane!

I seem to remember one about a werewolf attacking girls at parties starting with a girl named Katrina? Or is that a false memory? And wasn’t Jessica raped too?

The mean girl was Vanessa Barlow who didn’t get picked for the squad.
The girl ill as a child was Olivia.
I still have some of the books!

I loved these books but I loved the saddle club even more.

god knows why- I wasn’t a rider and had never met a pony in real life 😂

I had almost every single saddle club book, there were loads

I can't remember, but I do remember that rather then keep them at 16 forever like sweet Valley high ,they moved on and had a second set of cheerleaders ,there was another charchter ,who had ,had poor health as a child and was tiny weighed 60 pounds the things that stick in your mind🤣

OMG
I loved these books as a teen I have kindle unlimited as I’m a massive bookworm so I’m going to download them
I wonder how they have aged
The one I always remember was the girl who was horrible but then it was revealed she had MS

Judy Bloody Blume was another of my teenage favourite books 😂

Jilly Cooper was a staple in my teens and while all holiday last week I read Riders Rival and Polo absolute bliss 😂 best holiday I’ve had in years

What sticks in my head is that Mary Ellen was poor and saved and saved to buy a glitzy sweater for a party and some mean girl character threw a drink over it.

To date, the one with Regina is the only book I have ever cried reading.

Loved them.

Read a blog that summed it up and that was enough for me...the partner choices were intresting.

Did enjoy the Evil twin saga! Very dramatic with someone wanting to kill Elizabeth and take over her life and further books down the line they brought her back and she discovered she had a twin and then they both wanted to kill Jessica and Elizabeth and then become them..and fought over who was going to be who or something

Yes ,and another called Patrick who she kind of dated but was horrified by the fact his dad was a garbage collector ( he might have had his own business) and I think he called her Melon?

Oh my god this post has brought me so much joy! I loved these books so much