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Category: beach reads

May 27, 2021Jun 21, 2021 NeriSiren

Lost in Translation Preview: Subversive Summer Reading

Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020 NeriSiren

Girl-Powered Ghost-Busters: a tale of surf ghosts and sock thiefs

Oct 1, 2020Oct 26, 2020 NeriSiren

Chilling in Sweet Valley

Aug 10, 2020Aug 10, 2020 NeriSiren

The Jennifer Connolly Chronicles: Once in California

Cover of Sweet Valley Kids number one: Surprise! Surprise! A boy with dark brown hair, wearing a blue and white striped dress shirt over khaki pants, blows an inflatable party whistle at a girl with pale blond hair pulled back in a pony tail. The girl faces the audience, holding a round white birthday cake with eight candles (one is extra, for luck). She's wearing a red dress with long sleeves and tiny pink flowers all over it. To the right of this girl is an identical girl, only with her hair down. The second girl faces the first, puffing out her cheeks like she's going to blow out the candles. Above them, the title "Sweet Valley Kids" is shahped like a white banner with red letters; the "Sweet Valley" curves up in a quarter-circle, while "Kids" is horizontal. The tag-line says "It's Elizabeth and Jessica's seventh birthday!"
Jun 25, 2020Aug 12, 2020 NeriSiren

Kidding around in Sweet Valley

May 29, 2020Oct 1, 2020 NeriSiren

#FinfolkFriday: Beach reads and prophecies

Cropped image of the buttery yellow cover of SVH book 62, "Who's Who?" The red, letter-jacket-style series title curves around a circle in the center of the cover. Inside the circle, Elizabeth and Jessica stand against a pinkish-brown background. Elizabeth, on the left, is wearing a grey dinner jacket on top of a black top or dress that cuts straight across the chest. She's wearing a black beret over curly, pale blond hair. Her left arm is folded across her middle, supporting her right elbow. Her right hand is shading her right eye, like she's exasperated or embarrassed, and she's looking over her shoulder at Jessica, with an amusedly embarrassed smile. Jessica, meanwhile, is grinning confidently to the lower-left corner of the book, her arms crossed to show a series of multicolored bangles. She's wearing a simple, three-quarter-sleeved black dress punctuated by a wild statement necklace made up of multicolored fish. She has a pale blue streak in her curly, pale-blond hair. The tag-line under the circle reads: "Will the real Jessica please stand up?" and the book title is in large purple letters at the bottom of the cover.
May 6, 2020Aug 12, 2020 NeriSiren

Social distancing in Sweet Valley

Feb 28, 2013Aug 10, 2020 NeriSiren

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