JESSICA'S ANIMAL INSTINCTS (Sweet Valley Twins Super Edition) [Paperback]

Francine Pascal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2, 1996 | Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Sweet Valley Twins Super Edition

Taking care of animals is a snap! That's what identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and their friends think when they volunteer at the Sweet Valley Zoo.

Until Elizabeth accidentally lets a mischievous monkey named Spanky out of his cage. Spanky shows up in the strangest places -- behind the counter at Casey's ice cream parlor, in the auditorium during a school assembly, and hanging from the Wakefield's kitchen ceiling.

Until Bruce Patman takes care of a baby bird named Drumstick. Bruce is secretly afraid of birds, but Drumstick thinks Bruce is the greatest thing ever, and won't leave him alone!

Until Jessica falls in love with Gus, a grizzly bear cub who's lost his mother. She's determined to help Gus adjust to life in the zoo, but the zookeeper tells her they must return Gus to the wild. Will Jessica be able to say good-bye to her furry friend?

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Taking care of animals is a snap! That's what identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and their friends think when they volunteer at the Sweet Valley Zoo.

Until Elizabeth accidentally lets a mischievous monkey named Spanky out of his cage. Spanky shows up in the strangest places -- behind the counter at Casey's ice cream parlor, in the auditorium during a school assembly, and hanging from the Wakefield's kitchen ceiling.

Until Bruce Patman takes care of a baby bird named Drumstick. Bruce is secretly afraid of birds, but Drumstick thinks Bruce is the greatest thing ever, and won't leave him alone!

Until Jessica falls in love with Gus, a grizzly bear cub who's lost his mother. She's determined to help Gus adjust to life in the zoo, but the zookeeper tells her they must return Gus to the wild. Will Jessica be able to say good-bye to her furry friend?

Don't Miss Any Of The Books In This Fabulous Series!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback
• Publisher: Sweet Valley (May 2, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553483919
• ISBN-13: 978-0553483918
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,574,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, July 13, 2005

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Kelly "Kelly" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jessica's Animal Instinct Pb (Sweet Valley Twins) (Paperback)

This was an excellent book for the first two weeks of Summer SVMS has to do work experience. Jessica, Elizabeth, Bruce Patman and Melissa McCormick end up at the zoo. Elizabeth put Jess's name in the thing to get to the zoo and 4 people got drawed (see above) Jess didnt want to work at the zoo. She gets assigned to the bears. When a mother bear is brought in she dies and her cub falls in love with Jess and vice versa. Jess hides the cub in her room when she is told the cub has to be relesed back into the woods. Liz has a monkey it gets lose in Casey's. Bruce and Melissa work with the birds a baby bird is born and the first living thing it sees is Bruce so it thinks Bruce its its mother. Bruce is scared of birds

5.0 out of 5 stars Twins,Melissa and Bruce work at Zoo, December 26, 2004

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Kim Possible Finicatata "Jen" (Grand Blanc,MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JESSICA'S ANIMAL INSTINCTS (Sweet Valley Twins Super Edition) (Paperback)

The Twins won the lottery and they get to work at the Sweet Valley Zoo. Jessica saves a little cub's life when it's mother dies from a tranculizer[sp] dart gun She names it Gus. Elizabeth is friendly with a monkey named Spanky who escapes from the Zoo and keeps Disappearing and Appearing.Should've called him Houdini.He appears at The Library,At Casey's,At the Monkey's cage.Bruce and Melissa work with birds,and Bruce is afraid of birds,He calls a baby bird Drumstick,The funny part about it is,He called it Drumstick,after Chicken Drumstick,Chomp Chomp and Melissa Said"That's Disqusting!" He does save Drumstick from Predators and Melissa sees it and gives him a kiss.

4.0 out of 5 stars Monkey Business!I cant Bear it, August 1, 2001

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Linda Maree Rowe (my place where there are a hundred teddybears) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JESSICA'S ANIMAL INSTINCTS (Sweet Valley Twins Super Edition) (Paperback)

Jessica and Elizabeth must work at a zoo as volunteers and learn about the animals.Elizabeth is run silly by a mischevious monkey who takes offense to her strong beliefs that monkeys are stupid and only know how to pick nits off each other. Jessica,meanwhile,becomes extremely attached to a bearcub whom thinks of her as a mother.This has that classic We-must-take-him-back-to-his-environment-and-sadly-watch-him-go-away scene,at the end.By the way the title I gave this article is stupid because I LIKE the book.