Lynne has always had a crush on Guy Chesney, and he immediately falls in love with the anonymous songwriter. But Lynne is certain that she can never live up to Guy's expectations, so she tells no one that she wrote the song.
This book is quite unrealistic, like most books in this series, but I have always loved it.
Unknown to Liz, Enid immediately takes a disliking to Amy. Amy is silly and vain. She is not at all like Liz's description of her. Liz is blind to the change and to Enid's feelings. Will Enid lose Liz's friendship?
I enjoyed this book.
In Sweet Valley High Super Edition, Malibu Summer, Elizabeth and Jessica have taken jobs as mother's helpers in Malibu. Jessica takes the job that she thinks is better, but it turns out that Elizabeth gets to stay with a fabulously wealthy family while Jessica is stuck in a small house. Jessica schemes to get Elizabeth to switch with her, but Elizabeth refuses.
On page 9, Lila informs Liz and Jessica that she hopes to fall in love this summer since "[t]here are a lot of great-looking girls in Malibu." I was taken aback, since Lila has so far only been interested in boys. The book I read is the first printing, and "girls" was changed to "boys" in later printings.
This book held up well, and I enjoyed it as much as I did years ago.
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Malibu Summer was one of my all time favorite SVH books. Probably read it the most.
As to Lila saying there was a lot of good looking girls, unless there is more to the context, this is something we see differently than at the time. Most kids reading the book at the time did not think Lila was a lesbian, they just thought she was commenting on how many pretty girls are on the beach. People do comment about that without it being sexual. But as more and more people saw it that way, they changed the book. I remember at the time not understanding what the problem was, even though I remember the hoopla. As a kid, I had read it as Lila either jealous of all the pretty girls or noticing that their were tons of girls she had to 'compete' against to get a guy. At the time, it never occurred to me people would interpret it otherwise, but many did, hence the change.
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