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Book title: Gossip Girl #1: A Novel
Author: Cecily Von Ziegesar
Publishing company: Little Brown & Co
Year of publishing: 2002
Pages: 208
Gossip Girl is about a group of kids living in New York. These kids go to either an all girls or all boys private school, live in huge fancy apartment buildings, have the most expensive clothes and can do pretty much whatever they want whenever they want. There are two best friends, Blair and Serena and one year Serena goes away to boarding school. One summer Serena comes back unexpectedly from boarding school and she quikly finds out that everything isn't the same as it used to be. Blair had made new best friends, Isabel and Kati, and everyone spreads rumors that she was kicked out of boarding school for bad behavior. The only person that doesn't act strange around Serena is Nate, Blairs boyfriend. Blair gets jealous and thinks that Serena will try to steal Nate away from her so she befriends Serena and gets everyone else to not talk to her. Serena doesn't get invited to the coolest parties anymore and finds herself alone watching TV on Friday nights. In the end, Serena realizes she doesn't need her "cool" friends to be happy and goes and makes new friends. She and Blair make up, they aren't friends anymore but Blair stops being mean to Serena, and Nate tells Serena he can't be friends with her anymore because of Blair.
Gossip Girl is a book that brings the real life drama of teenagers into a story. The best part about this book is that it is in teenager's point of view, showing every emotion that they go through. It is a book that takes one problem, and turns it into everyone else's problem.
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