Sweet Valley High Wiki

About The Series

Sweet Valley High is a novel series created by Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters for the entire duration of the series' creation. The books chronicle the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, (who live in Sweet Valley, California) and they all attend : The Sweet Valley High.

The series began in 1983 and ceased publication twenty years later with over 152 books to its name. Over the years, the books were written by many ghostwriters (including Emmy-award winning screenwriter Rodney Vaccaro). The books are generally classified as young-adult or kids' fiction and mostly belonged to the genre of soap opera, romance novel or fantasy-adventure. The series quickly gained popularity and spawned several spin-off series, including Sweet Valley Senior Year and Sweet Valley University.

The novels Sweet Valley Confidential and The Sweet Life, which follows the characters as adults, was released in 2011 and 2012.

Between 1994 and 1998 there was a television series that aired on FOX and UPN, based on the original book series.

Characters

The characters differ per series. The characters that are known from the main series "Sweet Valley High" are:

• Jessica Wakefield
• Elizabeth Wakefield
• Patty Gilbert
• Todd Wilkins
• Bruce Patman
• Enid Rollins
• Lila Fowler
• Winston Egbert
• Manny Lopez
• Cheryl Thomas
• Reginald Patman
• Devon Whitelaw
• Renata Vargas

References

Home Entertainment

Season 1 of the television series is now out on DVD.