I totally paused!

I love the shocked look on Elizabeth’s face. Nora looks so calm. That is obviously shocking! Also, the house is supposed to be super scary and it just isn’t :/ And I think the tag line on half the books is about something maybe coming between Jessica and Elizabeth…which, if I were either one of them, I’d probably want something to come between us.

These books are so short I swear you can explain them in two sentences. In this one, Nora Mercandy is the new girl at school and OMG her family is full of witches! So of course all the kids are mean to her and tease her, and actually do some pretty vile things. But it all works out in the end because Elizabeth has faith in her and is her friend. Cuz that’s Liz’s role in life.

This is possibly the most embarrassing thing I’ve admitted in public in a long time, but there was a time in my life where I actually liked Lila Fowler in these books. No idea what I saw in her, because she is so awful! To the point where I have no idea who could even write a character so vile. The pranks and schemes she comes up with to torment Nora with are really so terrible – stealing her quiz and changing the names, making her the Unicorns slave, and faking being nice to her? Wow. Not to mention the lying and saying Nora stole her pen. It kind of makes me wonder what kinds of ideas these books gave kids in school – did plots like this one make bullies well, bullier?

It’s also Halloween during this book, so this is Jessica’s costume:

She had put on lots of Pan-Cake makeup, long false eyelashes, and wore a black wig that hung to her waist. Dressed in the grass skirt, halter top, and flowered lei, she did a few hula steps in front of the mirror.

She’s a hula dancer, if you couldn’t tell. Maybe I’m a bit old fashioned or something, but this book was originally published in 1986 and that seems like a bit of a scandalous outfit for a 12 year old back then. Now days it’s probably normal, but this was a long time ago!

I also love this…

Ellen – Look at Ken [Matthews]. He’s really cute – it’s too bad he’s so short.
Jessica – I think he’s a total loser. He’s practically a midget.

Hey Jess, you are so going to be dry humping him in a few years. And Liz is going to not have sex with him behind your back – just fyi.

I think it’s funny to read these kinds of things, knowing the Twins series was written after SVH. The ghost writers must have read the High series and laaaaaaughed while thinking “What can we do to mess this up?” I cannot come up with any other explanation for why Liz and Amy Sutton are best friends in jr. high, but hate each other in high school. The last line of the book is “Could she lose Amy too?” Umm, yeah! Get used to it!

This is of course leading into the next book, which has Amy trying out for the new Booster Club and if I remember accurately, she pisses Jessica and Lila off by being good and the teacher makes them let her on the squad. Time will tell if my memory is correct.

Oh, and they did mention ballet like twice in this book. We’ll see how long that keeps up for.

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