![]() ![]() The graphic novels will be available simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback formats on November 1, 2022. Middle school is hard enough, but with these twins each dealing with becoming their own person, will they be able to stay friends?” Elizabeth is excited to organize a school newspaper, but Jessica is more interested in joining the exclusive Unicorn Club. but are they ready to take on each other? Jessica and Elizabeth have always been inseparable, but starting middle school means a chance for new beginnings. From the press release: “In SWEET VALLEY TWINS #1: BEST FRIENDS, Jessica and Elizabeth are ready to take on middle school. The story is getting a little bit of a reworking to be more available to middle graders, which makes perfect sense, especially in light of the fact that I cannot keep any of my Babysitters Club books on the shelves. ![]() GLAAD Media Award nominee and Eisner nominee Claudia Aguirre is illustrating, and she’s done incredible work on Morning in America and Lost on Planet Earth, so I’m ready for this. Nicole Andelfinger knows how to write for graphic novels AND knows how to adapt teen novels for graphic novels, so I think my library kids are in very good hands. Nicole Andelfinger is adapting, which is fantastic news Andelfinger has worked on Sabaa Tahir’s graphic adaptation of the An Ember in the Ashes novels, worked on Steven Universe, and writes the Power Rangers comics for BOOM! Studios. Random House Graphic is publishing the series, starting with Sweet Valley Twins #1: Best Friends. So this morning, when I saw that Sweet Valley High is getting the graphic novel treatment ala Babysitters’ Club, I knew I had to get the word out. Hinton’s angsty boys by then, but those books were everywhere and I had friends who were OBSESSED. It was the ’80s, folks.) I never got into them the way some of my friends did I was all about S.E. (We didn’t have a separate YA section yet teen books just wrapped around the end of the kids’ books. If you’re of an age, you may remember Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High– I can still see the shelf full of novels in the kids’ section at my childhood Barnes and Noble. ![]()
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