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Anna Carey is a journalist, scriptwriter and the author of five novels for young adults, the most recent of which is The Making of Mollie, which was shortlisted for the Senior Children's Book of the Year Prize at the 2016 Irish Book Awards. Her first book The Real Rebecca won the same prize at the 2011 Irish Book Awards.

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#10 | WRONG KIND OF GIRL

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WRONG KIND OF GIRL Does Jessica hate "Easy" Annie Whitman because she reminds her of herself? That's just one of the questions we ponder in our tenth episode. Jessica is outrageously monstrous even by her own standards (and has a fit of…
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#9 | RACING HEARTS

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RACING HEARTS Do you care about the inner workings of the Sweet Valley High track team? Neither do we, but unfortunately there's a lot about it in this book. Luckily we've got Lila being gloriously evil, Bruce prancing about in tiny shorts…
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#8 | HEARTBREAKER

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HEARTBREAKER Jessica is back to her old evil self in episode eight, Heartbreaker, as she plays games with poor old Bill Chase, a big eejit with a tortured past. Add a wildly unsuitable school play, a glamorous love rival for Liz, and a…
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#7 | DEAR SISTER

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We tackle one of the greatest entries in the Sweet Valley canon and it doesn't disappoint. DEAR SISTER Liz goes wild, Jessica gets responsible, Todd cares about whales, Ned and Alice are terrible parents and Bruce uses his Old Timey…
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#6 | DANGEROUS LOVE

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Put on your hot pink helmets (ahem) and hold on tight, we're going on a wild ride in episode six. DANGEROUS LOVE Todd's new Yamaha motorbike isn't the only novelty in Sweet Valley as we are introduced to a wide range of characters who…
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#5 | ALL NIGHT LONG

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It's episode five, and we're channelling Lionel Richie's All Night Long as we discuss a book that doesn't live up to its truly spectacular cover. Seriously, hardly anything happens in this one. But we're diving in anyway, to talk about one…
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#4 | POWER PLAY

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It's episode four, and we've arrived at one of the most offensive books in the entire series. Which is saying something. Join us as we discuss Power Play, in which pretty much everyone in Sweet Valley High is a hateful bully, Mr Collins…
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#3 | PLAYING WITH FIRE

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Playing with Fire is the first bona fide classic in the Sweet Valley series and there is a LOT to talk about, from Bruce and Jessica's incredible dance skills and their close encounters by the cafeteria bins to the raciest moment in Sweet…
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#2 | SECRETS

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Secrets is a book that expects us to believe Enid Rollins once zoomed down a highway while hopped up on bennies in a GTO going eighty miles an hour, and that's just one of the many implausible plot points discussed in our second episode.…