Second Best (1988)

by Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne

Other authors: Cheryl Zach

Series: Sweet Valley Twins (16)

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Things are happening fast for the Wakefield twins. The biggest party of the year is coming up. If Jessica can get "un-grounded" in time, she'll be able to go. Elizabeth is entering a statewide essay contest, hoping to win the $100 prize. And both twins are putting in extra time on their special school projects. Cute, smart, and popular Tom McKay is in Jessica's work group. His antisocial brother, Dylan, is in Elizabeth's. Dylan feels that he will never be as good as his brother. So why should he even bother to try? Elizabeth really wants to prove to Dylan that he can be the best at something, too. But can she help him without coming between two brothers?… (more)

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The really interesting thing about Sweet Valley books (okay, one of them) is the way that male violence is so normalised. Like, as soon as Dylan wins the essay contest, everyone completely forgets about the fact that he attempted to beat up his brother in the middle of the caf. I dunno. Dylan is such a creep in this.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Francine Pascal	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Suzanne, Jamie	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Zach, Cheryl	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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"Guess what, Mom!" Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield exclaimed in unison as they burst through the door into the sunny, tiled kitchen of their Spanish-style home.

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Things are happening fast for the Wakefield twins. The biggest party of the year is coming up. If Jessica can get "un-grounded" in time, she'll be able to go. Elizabeth is entering a statewide essay contest, hoping to win the $100 prize. And both twins are putting in extra time on their special school projects. Cute, smart, and popular Tom McKay is in Jessica's work group. His antisocial brother, Dylan, is in Elizabeth's. Dylan feels that he will never be as good as his brother. So why should he even bother to try? Elizabeth really wants to prove to Dylan that he can be the best at something, too. But can she help him without coming between two brothers?

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