Did You Read Sweet Valley High Books Growing Up?

September 24, 2009

Sweet Valley High, a book series that had a twenty-year run starting in 1983, centered on the lives of teen twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield from — you guessed it — Sweet Valley, CA. There was even a television show based on the books.

Word on the street is that Jennifer's Body screenwriter Diablo Cody will be at the helm of a project to produce and direct an adaptation of the Sweet Valley High books. Something tells me she'll be perfect for this.

37 Comments

2 years 38 weeks

IT WAS STILL THE BEST AND IS THE BEST I STILL READ IT.LOVE THEM ALL.

3 years 15 weeks

I loved them so much that now I devote a large chunk of time (when I should be studying for law school classes) to writing reviews of the original SVH books and picking apart Liz and Jess's fashion decisions. http://calicodrive.blogspot.com

erinsugar 3 years 33 weeks

Read every single one, and the spinoffs. Loved them.

vanitypot 3 years 33 weeks

yep, i've read them! also Sweet Valley kids before going to Sweet Valley High then the SVU series.. as a kid, i actually envied Lily Fowler (she's probably the old-school Blair Waldorf) and Liz was my personal hero.. :D

3 years 33 weeks

Yuck, Diablo Cody. Probably the most grotesquely overrated screenwriter and now apparently director. Besides, I don't think Sweet Valley High will fly these days anymore.

3 years 34 weeks

How do you know Diablo Cody will be perfect for this? She has never directed before.

nyxmoxie 3 years 34 weeks

Aimeelo...I also read the babysitters club. I loved the movie when it came out in the mid 90s. Man I feel old now. lol.

nyxmoxie 3 years 34 weeks

I love, loved Sweet Valley, yes I even watched the crappy tv show and you all know it was crappy. lol. The novels were great but the tv show was ugh. Anyway I would love to see a well acted and well written adaptation.

Aimeelo 3 years 34 weeks

it was all about the babysitters club for me.

filmgirl81 3 years 34 weeks

GlowingMoon, we're so alike

HoneyBrown1976 3 years 34 weeks

It was one of my 80s staples!!

TheEnchantedOne 3 years 34 weeks

Not SVH but I was totally mad about Sweet Valley Kids and Sweet Valley Twins! I even read the Unicorn Club series. Good times :)

UrbanBohemian 3 years 34 weeks

I used to have the Sweet Valley High board game! But for reading I was more of a Babysitters' Club kind of kid.

GlowingMoon 3 years 34 weeks

Yes, I read some of them. Incidentally, I remember that exact cover. When I was in junior high, I had a good formula for reading them, without reading the entire book. I would read the synopsis on the back, and last chapter of the book. One would get the whole story from that. Really. :)

Chrstne 3 years 34 weeks

I read all of the Sweet Valley High Books and college books, I am pretty sure. I was always obsessed with reading, growing up. I even watched the short TV show they had on in the late 90's. They even have some episodes on YouTube, haha.

Hiding55 3 years 34 weeks

I loved these books. I read a lot of them. They were hand me downs from my aunt who was only 9 years older than me.

bengalspice 3 years 34 weeks

I read Sweet Valley Kids too ... I wanted to grow up and be just like Elizabeth!

chatondeneige 3 years 34 weeks

Not going to lie, I'm going to go check out a few from the library. I've been looking for some light, fast reads. :) The thing about Diablo Cody if she does this - is that now all she's done in film is high school movies - is that really all she wants to do? There's a niche for it, but I couldn't continually dumb myself down to that level - if she can, I guess good for her.