![]() Ginny Lu will sell her dolls and Jess will get a cut of the profits. Jessica learns of Ginny Lu’s whittling skills and appoints herself Ginny Lu’s agent. Hilariously, Ned and Alice are so impressed with Jessica’s work ethic that they give her extra allowance money. Jess also makes a deal with Steven, doing his chores in exchange for his allowance. Then she tries to steal some of Elizabeth’s clothes to sell. First she wants to sell some of her clothes, but she realizes that that would mean getting rid of her stuff. Now, if it were me, I’d make Janet and Joe pay for a new racket, but Jessica decides she’ll have to get the money herself. Except Ellen, who is Satan’s own spawn and deserves to be shunned.ī-plot: Jessica loans Ned’s tennis racket to Janet, who leaves it in her yard, where it’s run over by her brother Joe while he’s mowing the lawn. So you see, kids, you shouldn’t make fun of people because they’re different from you. Ellen arrives and realizes that Ginny Lu is a good person. Thanks to her bond with Snow White, she’s able to get to the foal, and thanks to her experience with farm animals, she saves the foal. But Snow White won’t let Ted near the foal. The foal is premature, and if Snow White doesn’t nurse him, he’ll die. First she swings by the stables to say goodbye to Snow White, and she discovers that Snow White has had her foal. Ginny Lu runs off in tears, ready to admit defeat and return to Stony Gap. But things get screwed up when Ginny Lu recites a poem and the SVMS mean girls make fun of her. Suddenly Ginny Lu isn’t weird – she’s cool. She even gets some admiration from other students. Ginny Lu enters her dolls in the fair, and they are clearly impressive. Ellen is an awful, awful person, you guys. ![]() She goes so far as to not attach the saddle properly, which Ted the stable boy notices. Ellen ups the rivalry by daring Ginny Lu to ride Mr. Elizabeth helps her get around it and keep visiting Snow White. She even has her father put up a notice to keep people off of their private property. Unfortunately, Elizabeth has bad news for Ginny Lu: Snow White belongs to Ellen.Įllen is ticked when she finds out Ginny Lu has been spending time with her horse. Elizabeth later learns that this talent is for Appalachian folk art, and in high demand. She compliments Ginny Lu’s artistic talents she carves wooden dolls, which are what she thought of entering in the arts and crafts fair. When Elizabeth shows up for a riding lesson, the two girls bond over their love of horses. She winds up at Carson Stables, where she immediately takes a liking to a pregnant horse named Snow White. Ginny Lu ends up skipping school and wandering around town. Word has spread that Ginny Lu is weird, so everyone teases her and talks trash about her. The other kids make it clear that this wouldn’t be a cool thing. The students learn about an arts and crafts fair, which Ginny Lu considers entering. Ginny Lu’s too naïve to realize that she was just mean-girled. Then they put together a horrific combination of clothes and laugh in her face. The girls offer to help Ginny Lu find the latest fashions so she’ll fit in at school. Waldron takes Ginny Lu shopping, and they run into Ellen and Lila. Ellen brands her a hillbilly, a stereotype the ghostwriter happily plays into. Everyone thinks she’s weird, because she has a southern accent and wears old-fashioned dresses. Ginny Lu makes a less-than-favorable debut, bursting into a class and loudly asking where her aunt is. ![]() It’s never explained why she comes to Sweet Valley, since her parents are back in Tennessee, but I guess it’s because Stony Gap only has a one-room schoolhouse, and Ginny Lu’s family wanted her to learn about things like electricity and running water. Ginny Lu Culpepper hails from Stony Gap, Tennessee, and has come to live with her aunt, Ms. Summary: This is basically your standard there’s-a-new-kid-in-Sweet-Valley-and-no-one-likes-her book. Ginny Lu is always how I imagined Caddy Woodlawn looked ![]()
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