History Literature / SweetValleyHigh

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Wakefield_Twins.jpg Book series running from 1983 to 2003, created by Francine Pascal. Spawned a TV series made by SabanEntertainment, several SpinOff book series, a board game and other merchandise. Almost 200 books were published in the main series alone; over 600 were published including the spinoff series. Stories were handed off to ghost writers and generally hit bookstores once a month.

** The enevitable outcome of this can clearly be seen in Sweet Valley Confidential where we see how screwed up everyone has now become! Good job, Ned and Alice!

* HeyItsThatGuy: KatherineApplegate and MichaelGrant, both of which co-wrote the {{Animorphs}} series and the latter of which wrote {{Gone}} and {{BZRK}}, ghostwrote for ''Sweet Valley Twins'' before they got their start.

* HairOfGold: Played straight with Elizabeth, subverted with Jessica.

* Token Minority: In the orginal series, it's Patty Gilbert, Maria Slater, and Annie Whitman's stepsister Cheryl (all African-Americans), Jade Wu (Asian-Anerican), and Rosa Jameson (Latina-American). In Senior Year, it's Maria Slater (African-American), Tia Ramirez (Latina-American), and her friend Andy Marsh (gay). In SVU, it's Nina Harper, her boyfriend Bryan Nelson, and Tom Watt's best friend Danny (all African-American). When the twins are sophomores at SVU, their gay friend Neil lives with them.

** Played straight in ''The Sweet Life'' as Jessica and Todd are having marriage problems but they don't see a therapist.

* SuddenlySexuality: Steven comes out as gay in ''Sweet Valley Confidential'', despite having supposedly been heterosexual for the whole of the original series, being married to Cara at the start of the book, getting engaged to Billie in ''Sweet Valley University'', and having a nervous breakdown over the death of ''another'' girlfriend (Tricia Martin - see IdenticalStranger above). His eventual boyfriend is Aaron Dallas, another case of SuddenlySexuality.

** A perfect example is book 10: Wrong Kind of Girl: Annie Whitman is called "Easy Annie" because she goes out with a different boy every night and dresses provocatively. Jessica, who does the EXACT same thing, [[{{Hypocrite}} condemns Annie for it and goes as far to keep her off the cheerleading squad,]] while on the other hand Elizabeth insists that Annie shouldn't be judged for her behavior--even as she looks down on Jessica for it.

** They were also quick to make excuses for Elizabeth's misdeeds while reading Jessica the riot act for hers (though Jessica usually manages to weasel her way out of punishment), not to mention completely oblivious and insensitive to Jessica's genuine insecurity about Elizabeth's "perfection"--it took Jessica ''running away'' for it to dawn on them how troubled she was.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Wakefield_Twins.jpg Book series running from 1983 to 2003, created by Francine Pascal. Spawned a TV series made by SabanEntertainment, several SpinOff book series, a board game and other merchandise. Almost 200 books were published in the main series alone; over 500 were published including the spinoff series. Stories were handed off to ghost writers and generally hit bookstores once a month.

* ''Sweet Valley High'': the flagship. The twins are 16-year-old juniors at Sweet Valley High. Jessica is a cheerleader and Elizabeth writes for the school paper.
* ''Sweet Valley Twins'': the first SpinOff. The twins are 12-year-old sixth-graders at Sweet Valley Middle School (and in case you were working on the math, no, it's not right; they should have been 11 years old.) Jessica is in a clique called the Unicorns, who got their own SpinOff.
* ''Sweet Valley University'': the twins go off to college. Jessica quickly loses her virginity and briefly gets married. Elizabeth attracts a cyber-stalker.
* ''Sweet Valley Kids'': the twins are 7 year-old second-graders. Sometimes they solve mysteries.
* ''Unicorn Club'': SpinOff of ''Sweet Valley Twins''.
* ''Sweet Valley Junior High'': the twins are now eighth-graders at a new school following rezoning.
* ''Sweet Valley Senior Year'': the twins are now 17-year-old seniors. After a devastating earthquake hits Sweet Valley (on the twins' birthday, no less,) many students from flattened El Carro High transfer to Sweet Valley High. With this entry, the series reverted to less fantastic storylines, and the characters were more culturally diverse.
* ''Elizabeth'': Elizabeth travels to England, works as a maid, and loses her virginity.
* ''Sweet Valley Confidential'': this is another SpinOff which was released in March 2011 and chronicles the lives of the twins and their friends at age 27.
* ''The Sweet Life'': a six-part ebook series that began in July 2012. It picks up three years after ''Sweet Valley Confidential'' and the twins and their friends are 30. [[spoiler: Jessica's marriage to Todd has crumbled, Bruce and Elizabeth are living together and he's accused of sexually assaulting an intern, Lila's on a reality show, and Steven and Aaron are clashing over parenting styles.]]

* IdenticalGrandson / GenerationXerox: Almost every book in the series mentions that the twins' mother was frequently mistaken for their older sister, and that their brother Steven was a carbon copy of their father. Taken to extremes in the ''Saga'' books, in which almost every generation of the twins' maternal and paternal lines tend to be nearly-exact copies, particularly the two ''other'' sets of blonde {{Polar Opposite Twin|}} girls on their mother's side of the family tree.

* IdenticalGrandson / GenerationXerox: Almost every book in the series mentions that the twins' mother was frequently mistaken for their older sister, and that their brother Steven was a carbon copy of their father. Taken to extremes in the ''Saga'' books, in which almost every generation of the twins' maternal and paternal lines tend to be nearly-exact copies, particularly the two ''other'' sets of DifferentAsNightAndDay blonde twin girls on their mother's side of the family tree.

* DifferentAsNightAndDay: The twins are polar opposites.

* VisitByDivorcedDad: inverted as Lila's mom is the divorced parent who visits her after her near date rape experience.

* ''The Sweet Life'': a six-part ebook series set to begin in June 2012. It picks up where ''Sweet Valley Confidential'' left off, but now [[spoiler: Jessica- who's married to Todd- juggles career, marriage, and parenthood while Elizabeth and Bruce's relationship is tested by a major scandal.]]

** They were also quick to make excuses for Elizabeth's misdeeds while reading Jessica the riot act for hers (though Jessica usually manages to weasel her way out of punishment), not to mention completely oblivious and insensitive to Jessica's insecurity about Elizabeth's "perfection"--it took Jessica ''running away'' for it to dawn on them how troubled she was.

* AesopAmnesia: Jessica would frequently try to pull off a zany scheme. More often than not, it would blow up in her face, yet it wouldn't be long before she was trying to pull off another stunt.