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Anyone else willing to admit to reading Sweet Valley High?

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MrsSpoon · 29/11/2005 23:32

Was racking my brains trying to remember what I read when I was younger to contribute to Bourneville's thread.

I had completely forgotten about Sweet Valley High!

Anyone else read this drivel?

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Emelie · 26/01/2006 09:45

yep i read those, as well as mallory towers and then also a series about tiwns at boarding school. great for young girls.........

em xxx

weesaidie · 30/11/2005 14:49

Ha ha, I love the SVH books... fantastic! Also read Judy Blume... oh those were the days... pure escapism.

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MrsSpoon · 30/11/2005 14:33

Sorry Bourneville, it was Meggymoo's thread last night.

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MrsSpoon · 30/11/2005 14:32

Loved the Judy Blume books too. You could be right about the pencil test littledonkeyrach. LOL!

Used to think the sisters in SVH were very cool, wanted to be one of them, think it was Jessica. Went to the library every week until I had read the lot.

I was banned from reading Virginia Andrews by my Mum so these were the first books I rushed out to get when I left home, the Flowers in the Attic series.

I am a whisker away from 30.

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littledonkeyrach · 30/11/2005 11:49

Wasn't it in Are you there.. that they did the Pencil Test?

littledonkeyrach · 30/11/2005 11:49

Yep, read them all!
Forever did the rounds in our Latin class, I believe, though I'm not sure which was smuttier!

mummyhill · 30/11/2005 11:43

I am 30 and read the virginnia Andrews books as well as sweet valley high and judy blume.

NomDePlume · 30/11/2005 10:01

God, I loved Forever and Are you there God, it's me Margaret ('I must, I must, improve my bust')

mummytosteven · 30/11/2005 09:56

oh yes. remember the "lavalier necklace"???

WigWamBam · 30/11/2005 09:54

They passed me by too, Roobie, and I'm 42 ... this is obviously a thread full of spring chickens

foundintranslation · 30/11/2005 09:49

I read the Sweet Valley Twins ones - the prequels to SVH. I loved them. Jessica had this rich, popular, bitchy friend called Lila and Elizabeth worked on the school newspaper. And a girl called Lois was bullied. It's all flooding back

kama · 30/11/2005 09:44

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Roobietherednosedreindeer · 30/11/2005 09:44

Is this a particular age thing? These books seem to have totally passed me by (I'm 37). When I was 14 it was all Virginia Andrews "Flowers in the Attic".

expatinscotland · 30/11/2005 09:42

Someone gave me one when I was about 14. I took a lot of joy in burning it.

MascaraOHara · 30/11/2005 09:37

Yep and me - read it around 12 - it was so in fashion!

Lizzylou · 30/11/2005 09:32

Embarrassingly yes...and Judy Blume (esp the dirty parts of Forever in the playground...I thought it all sounded so disgusting!).

mummyhill · 30/11/2005 09:19

Guilty as charged. Sweet Valley High and Judy Blume books were a simple must in my early teens.

Nightynight · 30/11/2005 08:46

Sweet Valley High came out when I was at university. Ive read one though, in a bookshop, standing by the shelf - I just couldnt put it down!

spagblog · 30/11/2005 08:17

Oh and Judy Blume! That Forever book was legendary. Also, hello god it's me Margaret!

spagblog · 30/11/2005 08:17

God yes, and didn't one of the twins have her bedroom painted the colour of a hershey bar? I never knew what a hershey bar was until a trip to Florida and thought - bleugh, what a hideous colour for your bedroom

PiccadillyCircus · 30/11/2005 08:16

And Sweet Dreams

PiccadillyCircus · 30/11/2005 08:16

I read SVH .

And Forever (including of course that page.

superblastofflips · 30/11/2005 08:13

yep, i used to read those and the last one i read was 17 yrs ago!!?!?!

nailpolish · 30/11/2005 08:11

i read sweet valley high

and watched the telly progs, but i was a bit too old by the time they came out

there was the nice twin and the bitchy twin, but they always had loads of equally gorgeous mates and the nice twin had a steady boyfriend, with a car. oh and the twins had a car they shared

fabulous

superblastofflips · 30/11/2005 08:09

girls?