Power Play

by Kate William, Francine Pascal, Franklin W. Dixon

Book Overview

Elizabeth and Jessica in a tug-of-war... Chubby Robin Wilson has been following Jessica around for months. First she wanted to be her friend--now she wants to join Pi Beta Alpha, Sweet Valley High's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553274937
• ISBN13: 9780553274936
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Sweet Valley
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Wrong Genre Wrong Isbn

In attempting to order the HARDY BOYS CASEFILES book of this same title, this rom-rag showed up. EIGHT TIMES. I'm fairly certain this is due to a database error

Sweet Valley High #4 - Power Play

Robin Wilson thinks she is Jessica's best friend. She runs errands for her, and acts as a slave to Jessica. Jessica keeps Robin only to do her jobs for her (Jessica). When Robin starts trying out for the Sweet Valley's sorority, Pi Beta Alpha, Jessica makes sure Robin doesn't get in, mainly because she is overweight, and that it would ruin the image of the sorority. Elizabeth feels sorry for Robin and enters her name for the tryouts. Because Jessica is President of the sorority, she humiliates Robin into doing things in front of everyone, to see if Robin would break down and decide to quit. Things become worse when Robin in rejected, and accuses everyone, including Elizabeth of ruining her life. Can Elizabeth try to get through to Robin again? Meanwhile, Jessica is receiving expensive gifts from her friend, Lila Fowler...very expensive gifts! When she goes to the mall, she realizes that the merchandise that Jessica has, have been shoplifted. Have Jessica and Lila started shoplifting? Elizabeth tries to solve that problem as well. I loved reading this book, mainly because it had a Cinderella touch to it. You really feel sorry for Robin in the beginning and root for her throughout the story. Of course, people can also relate to Robin in real life, because everyone feels like an outcast and wants to fit in any way if they feel they look different from others. Jessica acts her usual conniving self, while Elizabeth has to fix everything and make it right again. This is one of the best Sweet Valley High books and I definitely would recommend it to the fans of the series.

Robin Wilson gets back!

Robin, a chubby girl wants to be in PBA. But after performing many tasks she is blackballed. She is very upset and she starts eating healthy and excersizing she becomes thin and attractive and is voted has a head cheerleader with JEssica! THen Robin even becomes Miss. Sweet Valley High and rides victoriously in Bruce Patman's Porshe with ALlen Walters in the back seat.

OUTSTANDING!

I thought this book was great!If you are a SVH fan then be sure to read this one!

Amusing...

I thought it was pretty amusing that Robin managed to lose allthat weight in the space of about 2 or 3 chapters. Other than that,the book was well written in terms of conveying Jessica and the other Pi Beta's two-faced snobbishness. Although I do think that Robin was partly to blame, due to the fact that she wouldn't tell Jessica and the Pi Betas where to get off. I mean, they completely humiliate her, yet she still kept after them. I also didn't like the way Robin reacted to Liz, I mean, yeah, Jessica treated her like dirt but, I don't know how Robin had the nerve to accuse Liz as well. It was Liz who was trying to stop her from making a fool of herself. END

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the third book I've read in this series. I've wanted to read these ever since I started reading the "Sweet Valley Twins" books Two of my friends told me that this was a really good book and they were right!