It Can't Happen Here (Sweet Valley Twins)

When Mr.Levin,a new teacher comes to Sweet Valley Middle School,he makes a game of making the kids wear something diffrent.Elizabeth doesn't like this game,but Aaron Dallas likes it.Aaron Dallas's grandfather is visiting,and he was in the holocaust.He lost his 2 sisters,and I think his parents in a concentration camp.

This book was one of the best out of the series. It teaches a lesson about holocaust but nobody learns till th end. The saddest part was when somebody(i am not naming who) threw one of the wakefield twins into her locker because she was spreading a true rumor around the school. I defiunetly recomend this book.(mind my spelling)

I re-read this book as an adult & yes, one of the other reviewers was right on the money when they said it was an excellent teaching tool about the Holocaust. It can very easily happen even here in the US. When you have the cliques who gang up on other kids & make fun of others & exlude others, it needs to be taken seriously, not passed of as just "normal" adolescence or childhood games. Boy, does Aaron learn a powerful... Read Full Review

I first read _It Can't Happen Here_ about three years ago when it first came out. I was in the fifth grade. I'm going into the ninth and still remember the lessons it taught me about excluding people because of race or religion. I was also shocked when I started comparing Sweet Valley to my own little world. How often do we think, as we're working on a history assignment, "C'mon, this kind of thing could never happen to me... Read Full Review

This I have to say was her best book. I could read it over and over without getting bored. Some parts I wanted to cry and some parts I felt how could they do this. I thought the way she told a story about history basically repeating itself when you think it can't was great. Elizabeth was the only one who would do something and she got persecuted. Just like in the 1930's. I am learning about this so I know what happened to... Read Full Review