Francine Pascal, the creator of the popular “Sweet Valley High” series of children’s books, died on Sunday.
Children's author Francine Pascal smiles during an interview after receiving the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, of of two children's literature prizes in which children do the voting, June 23, 1982. Francine Pascal, the creator of the popular “Sweet Valley High” series of children’s books, died on Sunday at the age of 92.
The “Sweet Valley” series chronicled the lives of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, identical twins who went to high school in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Sweet Valley. “‘Sweet Valley’ is the essence of high school. It’s that moment before reality hits, when you really do believe in the romantic values — sacrifice, love, loyalty, friendship — before you get jaded and slip off into adulthood,” she said about the series in a 1988 interview with
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