Ziegesar, Cicily. Gossip Girl. NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2002.
ISBN: 0-316-91033-3, $9.99 US; Paperback.
AWARDS/HONORS/REVIEWS
Publishers Weekly: "The book has the effect of gossip itself once you enter it's hard to extract yourself; teens will devour this whole."
School Library Journal: "High appeal for older teens...everything is at one's fingertips in Gossip Girl's world."
New York Magazine: "The books have a been-there-done-that honesty...Von Ziegesar takes seriously the inner lives of characters."
ANNOTATION:
Gossip reigns supreme in a world of sex, drugs, and alcohol as high school students in New York's Upper East Side live to have fun; even if it means betraying your best friend.
BOOKTALK:
Everything at the moment is going absolutely perfect for Blair Waldorf; her ultra-sexy boyfriend, Nate, can't keep his hands off her, and finally she has become the prettiest, smartest, hippest girl in the room at Constance Billard School. Yet, everything comes to a halt when Serena van derWoodsen, her childhood best friend, comes back into town.
Serena van derWoodsen. You can't even say her name without thinking of her perfect body and gorgeous hair; her ability to make everyone fall in love with her, including Nate. Why, Blair is in the middle of taking her clothes off for him, when the sound of Serena's voice sends him running out the room. Who does Serena think she is? The supreme goddess of New York City!?!
Well, not if Blair Waldorf has anything to do with it. Enter a world of jealousy and betrayal, where the "chosen ones" reign supreme: those who have "everything anyone could possibly wish for and who take it all completely for granted."
The Gossip Girl (whoever she may be) doesn't live by any rules. No one is telling her life is more than one big, drunk party. And you know you are dying to read why.
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