Sweet Valley Kids Super Snooper #1: The Case of the Secret Santa

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Sweet Valley Kids Super Snooper #1: The Case of the Secret Santa

Before I get to the actual recap, there are two important things you need to know about this book.

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[melody_powers]

Oh, man, not another SV copout ending! I totally agree with your logic, though. Fuck Liz.

Chris responds, “Maybe I wanted to be someplace warm for the winter. It’s pretty cold up north, you know. Besides, I like to meet lots of children.”

Santa or not, that is a really creepy thing for an old guy to say to a kid. Just saying.

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Santa or not, that is a really creepy thing for an old guy to say to a kid. Just saying.
Oh I agree. And why make the kids in the department store sit on his lap if he already knows what they want?

I try not to think about these things too much.

[wendiddy]

Yes Strangerface, there is a Santa Claus.

So young Elizabeth doesn't believe in Santa, but older Elizabeth believes in Werewolves and Vampires??

If a Sweet Valley Christmas means you get to stay 16 for 20 years, I'm all for it. As long as I don't have to stay in high school. (Shudder)

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This was actually kind of cute, in a... Sweet Valley-ish way. Aww ^^

Although why was Alice trying so hard to harsh Jessica's Santa squee? It saddens me.

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It wasn't bad for SVK. I was shocked.

Alice is just made of fail, I think.

[kakeochi_umai]

Although why was Alice trying so hard to harsh Jessica's Santa squee? It saddens me.
Yeah, my mum threatened the rest of us with all kinds of unpleasantness if we dared to spoil Santa for our little sister.

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Ditto! My sister's a lot younger than me or my brother and my mum was specifically all "do NOT be teenage scumbags about Father Christmas or the penalty will be swift and terrible".

[isabelquinn]

Alice gets some silly thing she wanted when she was a kid.

Like that scene in The Santa Clause! Did she get Mystery Date? Or a weenie whistle?

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I KNOW! It was actually some box with like snowflakes on it? In my head it was totally a Wienie Whistle!

[kakeochi_umai]

Because obviously if you were a magical being (both Saint and jolly old elf) with the ability to fly anywhere in the world, what you’d really want to do with your free time is clean up after Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield.
I am dying at the image of Santa wanting nothing more than to clean up after the Wakefields, perhaps explaining to Rudolph "But it's the WAKEFIELDS! They have sun-streaked blonde hair and eyes the colour of the...oh, you wouldn't understand!"

Miracle on 34th Street was the first movie I ever went to see at the cinema. It was a class trip when I was 10 and I didn't like the experience much at all. At the time I didn't have the attention span to sit through a movie, so I was bored all the way through. The only thing I remember about it is that the class bad boy crawled up to the screen and tried to touch it, before being dragged back to his seat by one of the teachers. Oh, and going from the dark cinema into the bright light of a sunny summer day and feeling like my eyeballs were being fried.