When Liz's parents go away for the weekend and with Todd's house being painted, she invites him to stay over so they can spend more time together. Although they begin the weekend with good intentions they then proceed to drive each other crazy. Jessica uses this opportunity to blackmail Liz into throwing a party and using the emergency credit card for a new dress. Chaos breaks loose when an accident ruins Jess's outfit, preventing her from returning it the next day.

After seeing a James Bond movie, Liz tries to write a similar type of story of her own, only the females are the strong characters and vice versa. Her main character is Platinum Blonde, a superspy who sets out to investigate a suspicious case concerning video game machines.

Enid's new boyfriend Ronnie chooses her to become the new spokesperson for an anti-drug campaign... touring the country with Steven Tyler. In confidence, Enid tells Liz that she's nervous because she used to have a drug problem herself. When Jessica overhears this she tries to use this information to snag the spokesperson position for herself. When Ronnie finds out about Enid's past he drops her from the campaign... and his life.

Jessica wants to join Club X, an exclusive club which creates hijinx around the school. At first Bruce is agitated that a girl wants to join, but once she passes initiation, he tries to use her eagerness to his advantage, setting her up in front of the school principal. Meanwhile, Todd tries to earn extra money playing baseketball so he can take Liz out, but as his bank account grows, so does his ego. Liz and Winston try to deflate him by enlisting the help of a professional.

A few of the gang become interested in their teacher's Adam Buchman's poetry. When Jessica is teased for not being 'cultured' enough to appreicate poetry, she comes along to a poetry reading just to prove them wrong. Bored, she becomes interested only when she finally sees Adam, and subsequently undergoes a personality (and physical) change just to impress him. Unfortunately, her writing skills are still underdeveloped. Desperate to impress, she steals one of Liz's poems and passes it off as her own at the next poetry reading... not realising that it is actually Adam's.

Feeling left out because Liz appears to spend all her time with Todd, Jessica tells Peggy that Todd is available in the hope of breaking them up. Peggy throws herself at Todd and Liz catches them, promptly breaking up with him. Then Jessica arranges a date between Liz and Chris. When Liz rejects Chris after one date, he uses her found diary (which she accidentally dropped) to spread her secrets around school. Pretty soon all of Liz's friends are mad at her, but Jess refuses to believe that Liz could spill their secrets, and promptly goes out to set things right.

While working at a teen hotline, Enid helps Mike, a quarterback from another school, to get over his parent's divorce. She agrees to meet with him in person, but backs out at the last minute because she's afraid that she's not pretty enough for him. She asks Jessica for support only to have her steal him away. Winston's eager to show the new Japanese foreign exchange student how to be 'cool' only to find that the roles are actually reversed.

Lila's dad forces her to work at the Moon Beach cafe and subsequently she becomes attracted to the meat delivery man, Heath. However, she discovers that she must hide her true idenity from him because he appears to have a thing against rich people. Jessica is thrilled to be working for the new fashion designer Dante until she learns that she is resigned to menial tasks such as making coffee. When she designs a jacket to show Dante, he promptly steals it to use in his own show.

Jessica and Lila are at it again. The annual Pacific Freestyle Dance is coming up and the winners have a chance to appear on TV. Jessica, winner for the last two years, is aghast when her steady dance partner Franco leaves her to tour with Madonna. Especially when Lila's father has flown in a top dancer, Rico, for her. Grudgingly, she pairs with Winston only to find out that he's very good. But when Franco returns unexpectedly she promptly drops Winston. When Lila cons Franco into leaving town just before the concert, Jess steals Rico away, leaving Lila with no one but Winston to dance with. Meanwhile, Todd refuses to enter with Liz because he hates dancing, but is hurt when she never asks him and pairs with Koichi instead.

Liz, working in the local hospital as a candy striper, finds out that famous talk show host Jeremy Frakes has landed in hospital. Jessia, determined to be his new assistant, also volunteers to get to him -- although she seems to only cause trouble for him. Meanwhile, Todd becomes jealous when Winston and Liz start to spend more time together. He starts suspecting his best friend has a crush on her when Liz starts to mysteriously receive flowers and letters.

The gang are at a party for Nicholas Morrow, the new heartthrob in town, when Liz is kidnapped following her shift at the hospital. Todd is the first to sense something's wrong, and he and Jess look for her everywhere only to discover that she's been kidnapped. Winston goes to the scene of the crime to look for her, but instead is arrested, which leads everyone to believe that it may be him who's kidnapped her.

When it is discovered that Peter has escaped from prison, Liz and Jess are put under protective custody. After two weeks with no danger, Jess is sick of being watched and manages to successfully escape. Unfortunately, she runs straight into Peter, who kidnaps her thinking she is Liz. When Peter realizes that it is the wrong twin he is dealing with, he sets up a deathtrap for her to get closer to Liz.

Todd is accepted into Fairmount Academy, a school capable of training many NBA hopefuls -- in Vermont. Liz has a hard time dealing with this, and finds in harder when they can't seem to spend any of his last days together. On his last night in Sweet Valley they get into an argument, and don't speak for two weeks. Nicholas then proceeds to ask Liz out, much to Jessica's dismay. Determined to get Nicholas, Jessica is determined to reunite Liz and Todd. She arranges for Todd to return to Sweet Valley -- with disastrous results.

At the summer draws to a close, the gang finds out that Todd has returned to Sweet Valley. Although Liz is initailly ecstatic, she finds him to be moody and depressed. Although she tries to console him, he breaks up with her. Later on she finds out that he was actually cut from the team. Jess is determined to lead her team to victory at the end of summer annual Beach Olympics and beat Bruce's team - even if it means employing underhanded tactics. Manny - who watched too much tv over the summer - starts fantisising about Enid.

A new school year starts in Sweet Valley. Tatyana Thomas, a famous model, comes to Sweet Valley hoping to start her life over. However, it's not as easy as she's hoped.

Bruce is left in charge of the Moon Beach after his father buys it. Bruce, hoping to impress his father, fires Winston and takes Jessica on as a business partner. Meanwhile, Cheryl, Elizabeth, and Enid decide to take a camping trip in hopes that Elizabeth will start to get over Todd.

Elizabeth decides it's time to start dating again, and with the help of Jessica, Lila, and Enid, she dates a bunch of guys. Winston catches Todd and his 'friends' trying to steal a car.

Jessica--as well as everyone else--is surprised when she gets one of the highest scores on the college compatibility test. Her and Mortimer are chosen to represent the school in the academic bowl, and even though Jessica finds out that her test results were wrong, she decides to participate anyway. When Winston angers two guys--Todd's 'friends'--they demand two hundred dollars from him, which he doesn't have. Elizabeth decides to help him out and give him the money to pay them, but Jessica uses the money without asking to buy a new dress. Cheryl tries to help out Winston by teaching him boxing, just in case those two guys want to fight him.

When Enid talks with Todd, she develops feelings for him and later asks him out. Todd, however, doesn't think of it as a date. Lila moves into The Wakefield's house while her own home is being fumigated. While Jessica and Lila are together at the mall, Jessica catches Lila shoplifting, and Lila tells her it's a total rush, so she decides to shoplift also, but they both end up getting caught.

The new coach asks Todd to please show his son around town. Jason, who seems to be quite a shy guy, turns out to not be so shy around the local girls. He not only goes on a date with Elizabeth, but also with Jessica. Meanwhile, Todd tries to warn the girls about what Jason's doing.

Instead of attending the Wakefield's annual sleep over, Jessica opts to to attend a dinner with Bruce and his friends from Harvard.

Bruce put up a fortune-teller at the moon beach, and the fortunes Jessica and Lila get only predict bad luck, which ends up coming true. Elizabeth goes on a date with a guy to the bowling alley, and when Todd hears this he decides to go as well and bring a date of his own.

Todd and Elizabeth's anniversary is coming up, and Liz waits for him to ask her out. Lila and Winston help Todd become more romantic. Jessica gets tapes from the library to help her learn her lines as Dorothy, but she accidentally gets Spanish tapes instead.

Bruce, who's ancestor Bruno supposedly founded Sweet Valley, works on an exhibit on exploring the town's history. However, Liz finds a diary that says otherwise.

Liz tries to help Enid gain self-confidence by giving her a job at the Oracle. Meanwhile, Bruce gets interested in an exchange student from Brazil and makes a deal with Jessica. She helps him to get Isabel, the exchange student, by making her jealous, and in turn, Bruce loans Jessica his yacht for the weekend. However, the plan goes awry when Bruce and Jessica discover that they may be interested in each other.