Amy Sutton

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Amy Sutton is a fictional character from the Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley Twins book series.

[edit] Character

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Amy is the daughter of Dyan Sutton, a sports reporter at the local television station. She is a talented athlete and member of the cheer leading squad in middle and high school.

[edit] Sweet Valley Twins

Amy is the tomboyish best friend of Elizabeth Wakefield. She is also close to Julie Porter and Maria Slater. Her romantic interest at that time is Ken Matthews. She works on the sixth-grade newspaper The Sixers. She had a half sister, Ashley, who appears in only one book. In one book, Amy is hypnotized by Jessica Wakefield to believe she is the snobbish Janet Howell's twin. After sixth grade, the Sutton family moves to Connecticut.

[edit] Sweet Valley High

The Sutton family returns to Sweet Valley during Amy's junior year. The past five years have changed her significantly into an attractive but self absorbed young woman. She is described all tall, slim, with long legs and tanned skin. She is blond with big gray eyes. She's lost her gawky look and years of braces have made her teeth perfectly straight.

Amy is initially eager to rekindle her friendship with Elizabeth and is jealous of Elizabeth's current best friend, Enid Rollins. Her attempts to alienate Liz from Enid fail and Liz decides that Amy is not someone she wants to be friends with anymore. Amy ends up becoming close to Jessica.

Like Jessica, Amy has a turbulent love life, moving from one boyfriend to another. At one stage, she launches a vendetta against Johanna Porter, the older sister of Amy's one time friend Julie Porter, when she discovers her boyfriend was cheating on her with Johanna.

When Amy decides she wants Bruce Patman she tried very hard to be with him, despite the fact that Bruce was seeing Regina Morrow. When Regina discovers their affair she starts hanging out with a worse crowd, which leads to a cocaine overdose that kills her.

Later, Amy pursues Tom McKay, even though his ex girlfriend, Jeannie West is a friend and fellow cheerleader. When Tom realizes he is gay, he sets Amy up with his best friend, Barry Rork, with whom Amy falls in love.

At the end of the series, Amy volunteers as a telephone counselor and, to the annoyance of her friends, begins speaking frequently in a psychoanalytical way.

Sweet Valley High

Main Characters

Elizabeth Wakefield | Jessica Wakefield

Secondary Characters