Penny Ayala

Penny Ayala was a character in the Sweet Valley High book series.

A member of the SVH senior class, Penny was the Editor in chief of The Oracle, the school newspaper. As Editor, she was firm, but very fair. She and Elizabeth Wakefield were close friends. Penny's dream is to be the editor of an international Newspaper, and it is because of that reason that she and Elizabeth are close friends.

She is shy, because her work in the paper, and rarely dated. She went into the Personal Ads that the paper was running, and a boy named Jamie answered. What she did not know that it was a hoax, set up by nasty Kirk Anderson, an arrogant tennis player. This infuriated Elizabeth and she came up with a scheme that would have been thought up by her more scheming sister, and put the arrogant Kirk in his place.

Penny later found out that "Jamie" was Neil Freemount, another tennis player, and they began dating.