Sweet Valley Twins #2: Teacher's Pet

[ladyrevan]

 While digging through my box of “Sweet Valley Kids” and “Baby Sitters Club” books, I happened to find, stuck between two BSC books, “Sweet Valley Twins #2: Teacher’s Pet.” Oh joy of joys, another un-summarized Sweet Valley book!

Well, until now.

Comments

[miss_eponine]

This was the first Sweet Valley book I ever read at the age of 10/11, and I think I cried because Madame Dance Teacher was just so MEAN to poor little Jessica. I was so happy when she got to dance at the end!

[ladyrevan]

I remember the couple times when I would complain about unfair treatment, my parents would look into it. Not because their baby could do no wrong, but my constant, non-fact-changing complaints were enough for them to go, "I wonder what's really going on here?"

So not only is Madame Andre completely unfair, the Wakefields aren't exactly proactive in their children's lives. Seriously, they walk to and from dance lessons by themselves at age 11? This is Sweet Valley! There's a serial killer and a rapist behind ever tree and shrub!

[bugspotter]

Maybe the country's serial killers and rapists didn't migrate to Sweet Valley until the twins hit high school.

[_ocelott_]

Yeah, pretty much every ballet/drama/music teacher has their favourites, the ones who get the plum roles every time (regardless of talent). And now that it's too late for me, Sweet Valley has shown how to get beyond that; become identical to the teacher's pet. Way to teach young girls to deal with their problems, ghostwriter.

I love that Jessica did nothing but whine in this whole book. She didn't actually take any proactive steps to solving her problems.

[ladyrevan]

Jessica nor her parents. I'd at least think Mrs. Wakefield would sit in on a dance lesson or two to see exactly what was going on. But that wouldn't make for good drama, I suppose.

[_ocelott_]

I dunno... parents weren't allowed to watch in my dance classes unless it was parents night. Or maybe Alice Wakefield just accepts that the world revolves around Madame I Can Call Random Dance Classes (instead of just informing students about the auditions while she's got them there on the phone).

[ladyrevan]

My mother didn't care. If there was a serious issue involving her children, the rules didn't apply to her. And I can recall a few instances where I was very pleased my mother put her foot down with a teacher.

But then again, this is Sweet Valley, and we shouldn't be over-analyzing. We don't read these books to point out the bad parenting.

[esc_key]

This was hilarious. Those Sweet Valley Twins sure were mature...

[ladyrevan]

Has their maturity level changed at all from series to series? *lol* I seem to recall the urge to throddle them a few times as a pre-teen... That and screaming, "How could you be so stupid!?"

[esc_key]

You know I thought of that as I posted the comment. They're still not mature in SVU... so maybe I'm just stating the obvious.

[versipellis]

Awesome recap. I'd forgotten how much crying there was in this one XD

I also suddenly realised I like Liz a lot more in SVT than SVH (or SVU)...

[loubeelou]

[“Yes, it is,” Mrs. Wakefield said. “And don’t call me Shirley.”]

hahahahahahaha
Pretty much everything you added to that passage was gold.