Jessica the Genius

by Kate William and Francine Pascal

Book Overview

Everyone knows that Jessica Wakefield lives for sun, fun, and guys. So how did she manage an almost perfect score on her SATs? There's a rumor going around Sweet Valley High that Jessica cheated. Will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553566350
• ISBN13: 9780553566352
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Sweet Valley
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

High Score for this book!

I enjoyed this book,it's really enjoyable.Jessica scores so well on her sats that she is falsely accused of cheating!Elizabeth says a speech defending her twin which is very good too.

This is a great book!

I don't know why some people don't like this book - it's great! It's about how Jessica, the "dumb twin" who couldn't care less about grades, gets an almost perfect score on her SAT while her "perfect" twin sister Elizabeth gets lousy scores. Everyone thinks Jessica switched names on her paper and her twin's. Jessica is suspended and almost expelled. She has to prove to everyone that she's not just a dumb blond, even though everyone, even Elizabeth and her boyfriend Ken think she really did cheat.

Slightly unrealistic, but stranger things have happened..

Jessica acing tests? Is this the eighth wonder of the world? When I started reading this book and found out that Jessica had supposedly turned into a genius, I wasn't able to put it down without finding out how everything turned out. Especially since Elizabeth received such low marks, which appeared very suspicious. I was a little disappointed that you never find out exactly what happened- besides it just being a fluke.I enjoyed this book too because of everyone else's attitudes and reactions. Ken doesn't believe Jessica when she tells him what her marks are, and he admits that his expectations of Jessica were much lower, which understandably upsets Jessica. Todd is so arrogant for most of the book because of the attention he's receiving from the basketball scouts that I thought he needed a good slap. However, I liked it when Elizabeth ditched and abandoned him at the beach. Elizabeth's trial for Jessica was neat to read about as well as adding some interest and common sense and showed how the twins' friendship stays true most of the time.Though I found that there was less action in this book, it was also a nice relaxing break from some of the competition, trickery, and fast pace of some other books in the series. It's definitely not a classic, but for readers who are fans of SVH, you shouldn't be disappointed.

Bit boring at times, but...........

Now, don't get me wrong. This book is great really. It's about tests,tests and tests. Jessica cheating and her identical twin sister defending her in court. yeah right. Come on, get real! If I had a twin, she would love to see me humiliated in front of the whole school!