Title: The Wakefields of Sweet Valley
First published: 1991
Description: Follow the riveting stories of the women who came  before Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield:

  Alice Larson, a bold sixteen-year-old from Sweden,  arrives alone in America to start a new life --  but with a broken heart.

Headstrong  frontier tomboy Jessamyn runs away to join the circus,  leading her sensitive twin, Elisabeth, into a  desperate search that ends in tragedy.

Spirited  twins and rivals Samantha and Amanda battle for  the love of the same boy during the glamorous  Roaring Twenties.

Marjorie, stranded in France  during World War II, becomes a heroine of the  Resistance.

Alice Robertson, child of the  tumultuous sixties, makes a painful romantic choice  she will hide forever -- even from her twin  daughters, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield.

Discover the lives and loves of these extraordinary  young women in the biggest, best Sweet Valley story  ever.