What are/were your favourite Sweet Valley books?

I always loved the sagas, and there were a couple of Sweet Valley Twins books that I read over and over again--one whose name I can't remember now, a thriller about a movie production and someone falling to her death onto a rocky beach, and a holiday special where they went into some sort of fairytale world, possibly because of dolls that they received as gifts? Someday I'll get all my Sweet Valley books out of storage and remember the names....

I agree -- the sagas were great, especially the ones about the ancestry of their families (Patmans, the Wakefield legacy, etc.) though I've never gotten that into the Twins books.

As for non-specials, I always really liked the Death Valley trilogy, the High School War trilogy, and the Au Pair trilogy...oh man, I loved the Prince Laurent character. Ahh, memories. :D

My favorites were the Special Editions (any SV series), especially if they were slightly scary. (I'm still into suspense/horror after all these years.)

There were so many books, I can't think of just one that I liked.

It seems we all have the same tastes here... My favorites were always the sagas and the Special Editions.

Let's see if I can remember specific titles... The Magic Christmas was awesome, I did a huge book report on it where I memorized like five pages from it. lol Big for Christmas was another good one. And despite the fact that I've read bad reviews about them, I really liked the SVH mini-series about that girl named Margo who tries to kill Elizabeth and "become" her...

Hi everyone!

I love, love, love Sweet Valley Twins. I think that I must have read every book in the series when I was a girl. Those books remind me of summer and everything good...

I used to sneak them when my mom confiscated all my other books as punishment. I could hide them and enjoy my "time out".

My favorite twin was Elizabeth, tho I secretly longed to give her a makeover! I adored her!

Didn't everyone just envy the Unicorns? They were the coolest girls in school..... remember the one where they tried to stop that guy named Randy from joining the Cheer leading Squad? Or the one where they helped this girl on chemo get a wig? That one made me cry.

#1---> I remember that book vividly! Their grandma comes to visit for Christmas and gives them two twin male harlequin dolls. Somehow they find themselves transported to that magical land, where the two dolls are actual princes. sigh.... those were the good old days!

I also liked one where they (I think) go visit their cousin in San Diego, and they're in this haunted house with a tower, but it all turns out to be two-way mirrors and smoke. I think that might be the second one you were speaking of, Zoe.

I never really got into SVH. I can only recall reading about two of those. The one in which that red headed girl (what was her name?!) lied and told everyone that she had a boyfriend who was sending her love letters. It all almost crumbled around her, but she actually ends up meeting a guy just like her fictional lover. Oh, and the one where a girl named Lynne gets a makeover.

Ahhh..... good old days indeed!

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The Magic Christmas! That's the one!

And suge, I think you're right too about the other book I meant.

I also liked the miniseries about the girl trying to become Elizabeth. And wasn't there a continuation of it, where the evil twin turned out to have a twin too, so they were trying to become both Elizabeth and Jessica?

That must have been after my time! I'm 27 now, so I was reading SVT's when I was 12-15. Millenia ago, I know....

Oh, it looks like you just barely missed it! It's from 1995.

Awww.... by 1995 I was too cool for SVT. Kids.... you know.

lol I'll never be "too cool" for any of the SV books.

Zoe, there was another super edition or whatever about Margo's twin, it was called Return of the Evil Twin... I've got to admit that book was what started me writing about evil/crazy people (I'm an amature author).

I'm going back through my old SV books, and wouldn't you know it, the one box of books that I can't find is the box that has most of my SVH books.

Somehow I missed responding to this thread before. I definitely remember The Return of the Evil Twin! I think the Evil Twin books were some of the most memorable of all SVH.

I hope you find that box, Heather! I'm really looking forward to the day I go through and catalogue all my old books that are in storage, and it would be so disappointing if some of them turned out to be missing.

Oh man! That sounds awesomel, _Zoe_. I wish I had a box full of old books in storage to look forward to!! Ah, some people have all the luck! :)

Want to hear something awful? I was talking to my mom the other day, trying to figure out what the heck happened to all my Sweet Valley boxes, and it turns out that they are all gone!! A few years ago my mom had a big car crash that totaled the car, and at that time most of my Sweet Valley books were in two boxes in the trunk of that car. *cries*

On the other hand, that just means I have to buy them all again! *checks wallet* Um, when I can afford it....

>1 _Zoe_:, _Zoe_ - Oh, I am so jealous of you. What I wouldn't give to have my SV books still. I used to love them and then went through a big phase where I was too cool for anything and pitched anything that reminded me of a time when I had been less cool. :) Ah the folly of teenage years.

I LOVED the ones where the twins would have a role reversal, like where Elizabeth got into a coma and then came out as "the bad twin", or the ones that were all about people from the wrong side of the tracks and how Elizabeth would help them become popular, even though Elizabeth herself seemed to be the kind of person who would have been such a dork in real high school, despite her perfect size 6 figure (isn't it sad how that is probably "fat" now?) and her feathered blond hair..... I also loved anything with Suzanne Devlin in it - anyone who can outb*tch Lila Fowler is pretty amazing - and the one where Enid was in a plane crash and couldn't walk.