Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Tweens, teens, and even nostalgic adults can find much better light reads.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sweet Valley High Subtitle Three Novels: Double Love/Secrets/Playing with Fire Author Francine Pascal Liz and her innocent romance get lost in the bizarre melodrama. And bad-boy drunk sideshow driver Rick seems like he's straight out of the rival gang from Grease. Jessica acts like the over-the-top catty, conniving girls they cast on reality shows - she's both annoying and fake. But while the idealized view of high school is the same, the tone isn't. The most likely audience is tween fans of High School Musical. Trouble with a capital 'T.'"), the parent pep-talks are still very Brady Bunch, and the stories are too simplistic to intrigue fans of Meg Cabot - and not nearly scandalous enough for the Gossip Girl crowd. The dialogue is still corny (The "Infamous Rick Andover. But modern junk does not a modern teen-dream fantasy make.
The Sweet Valley kids now have cell phones and blogs, a school Web site instead of newspaper, a Jeep Wrangler instead of a red Fiat Spider, and occasional mentions of Botox and MTV. The light-and-fluffy series every girl read in the '80s - and way before high school - is back with a 2008 makeover. Alarmingly, the twins have also gotten skinnier in this iteration: size 6 in the '80s, size 4 today. To modernize the series, new brands are peppered throughout, especially cars. The iffiest thing that new readers of the series will find in the first book is a bad-boy drunken car chase with unwilling passengers, an almost-forced kiss, a fistfight, and some serious lying and conniving behavior from Jessica against her own sister - with barely any consequences. Parents need to know that this revamped series from the '80s says it's for teens, but, just like in the '80s, the simplicity and candy-coated quality of the stories will mainly interest tweens, especially those who like High School Musical. Mentions of a girl's family members being in and out of rehab.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. His bad-boy friends are all drinking before a show.
Bad-boy Rick drinks, smokes, and drives drunk.
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