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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 158. Chapters: Sweet Valley High, Nancy Drew, The Culture, Loeb Classical Library, Hercule Poirot, Tarzan, List of Lone Wolf media, Tales of the Shadowmen, Library of America, Tarzan (book series), Charlie Chan, List of Shadowrun books, Zorro, Great Books of the Western World, Myst (series), Very Short Introductions, Exotic Gothic, Doc Savage, Liaden universe, Biggles, Sweet Valley Twins, Lone Wolf (gamebooks), Stony Man, African Writers Series, Barnes & Noble Classics Collection, Adrian Mole, List of Little House on the Prairie books, Jeeves. Excerpt: 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 their friends at 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. Ned and Alice Wakefield are the parents of a son, Steven, and identical twin daughters, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield. Ned Wakefield, a lawyer, and Alice Robertson, an interior designer, met while they were at college. Flower child Alice was engaged to conservative Henry Patman, Bruce Patman's father, at the time. After meeting Ned, she realized that she did not love Henry and broke off the engagement moments before the nuptials were to occur. She and Ned wed soon after. When the series began, they were said to have been married for twenty years; this would place their marriage in 1963. Their first child, Steven Wakefield, was named after Ned's late college best friend. Shortly after Steven's birth, Ned became a partner at his law firm. Two years later, Alice gave birth to Elizabeth and Jessica, who were named after Alice's ancestors, Elisabeth and Jessamyn. They were the third set of identical twin girls in her family in six generations. Their children grew into spitting images of their parents. Blonde, youthful Alice is often mist