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Francine Pascal's 'Sweet Valley High': What We Loved and Learned
Following the death of Francine Pascal, creator of 'Sweet Valley High' and its numerous spin-offs, Us celebrates the books that millions of teenagers adored
Reading the series, created by Francine Pascal, who died earlier this week (Sunday July 28) aged 92, was a rite of passage for millions of girls — beginning in 1983, when the first book, Double Love, came out, all the way through to to 2011, when the final title Sweet Valley Confidential: 10 Years Later was published. And, of course, the books were so successful that they made it to TV, with real-life twins Brittany and Cynthia Daniel bringing the Wakefields to life on-screen in 1994 and looking exactly how we pictured them (you know how it goes: “sparkling aquamarine eyes the color of the Pacific Ocean and perfect size-six figures.”) One minute you’re reading about life at a relatively normal high school, albeit one where everyone is a major stereotype, the next there are teenagers dating vampires, being hunted down by evil doppelgangers, dying in plane crashes, joining cults and becoming nannies for the royal family.
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