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

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Any fans?

I used to read them all the time .... they were a huge trend in P6/P7, I'm not sure I would like my 9 to 11 year old reading them. Though tbf I've never read back over them again.

Just discovered there are 135 books on kindle unlimited, though it seems to start at book 13. KIDNAPPED!!!!! I seem to remember Elizabeth gets kidnapped and its something to do with Bruce?????t was always Bruce wasn't it?

Maybe Jessica was jealous?

I really thought it was unfair that they were called Elizabeth and Jessica, as Jessica was such a beautiful name (and obviously all my future daughters would be named variations of it) and Elizabeth was sooooo boring like my Granny and the Queen lol

Amazing!! Thats my next sick day entertainment sorted!

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

Apparently I know that theme tune off by heart.

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😆

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

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 😂

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 😂

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.

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.

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

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

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