Gossip Girl

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Summary: Gossip Girls
Review: Picture this. Your best friend that you've done everything with for all sixteen years of your life suddenly is obliged to enroll in boarding school. After one full year, you finally learn to cope without her and progress. Life seems better and you're learning to manage. After going through all this, she unexpectedly comes back for senior year. This girl just happens to be the girl all the guys want, and the girl all the girls want to be like.

Blair Waldorf doesn't need to picture this, for Gossip Girls (the first), by Cecily Von Ziegesar briefly explains her life story.

Blair's life is the ideal life for all the teenagers in the book. This is until her best friend yet rival, comes back home from boarding school, after mysteriously getting kicked out. When Serina arrives back to her New York lifestyle, everything seems to drastically revolutionize and she can't comprehend why. Her "best friend" Blair's boyfriend Nate and her have a secret history together, but would like to refrain from letting Blair know. But Nate can't go on without telling her, even if it ruins their relationship and more importantly Serina and Blair's friendship.

On of the many exciting occurrences is when Blair throws a party and "accidentally" sends Serina's invitation to her old boarding school address. Serina finds this out from a friend named Jenny, and decides not to go to the party and go to a club with her. Tagging along with them is Jenny's older brother who has had a crush on Serina since the first time he laid his eyes on her. The suspense lead into what will happen between them, and will be carried on throughout the ending part of the book.

This book was superior and would be was enjoying to read. If you like reading action packed books, then this one is perfect for you. Teenagers would get pleasure from reading this book because in some ways they might be able to relate. This book was difficult to put down, and I'm sure it will be the same with the other five books of this series.

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Summary: yo...read this book!!!
Review: Gossip Girl tells the story of an unbelievably privaledged manhattan teenager. do not worry, this girl does not fill the shoes of the steroetype stuck-up rich girl. this story is about when a "perfect" girl stops living up to her impossible expectations. her whole image is ruined!

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Summary: It's reasonable..........
Review: This book is basically the 90210 of the East. The main characters are Blair and Serena along with their friends and associates katy, Isabel, Jenny, Dan, Chuck etc.. This is the first in a series of books that focus on the young and rich of the upper east side and the other teens that envy them. To me the book could have had more substance but if you are looking for a little laugh and curiosity of how the other half lives this is the book for you. Their saga follows in six other books.

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Summary: Privileged, Loved, Hated, Drunk--The Luxe Life in a Nutshell
Review: Welcome to the world of Gossip Girl--where everything is told and talked about, where the kids don't just party on the weekends, but have to endure Sunday brunches with the friends they secretly hate, and also where the money is no problem.

Meet Blair Waldorf, a sixteen-year-old rich girl, who lives in Manhattan's ritzy Upper East Side, along with her clique of friends. She's loved and feared by her classmates at the all-girls school of Constance Billard, and lusted on by her sexy boyfriend, Nate. Blair and Nate and the rest of their friends live amongst the world of sex, drugs, alcohol, and other quick-easies that come so natural and often, that it isn't shocking to find themselves throwing up in toliet bowls. Blair's life is basically perfect, in every girl's mind, until the unthinkable happens--her best friend, and worst enemy, has returned home from boarding school, after getting kicked off. And well up to stirring things up.

Serena van der Woodsen, the boarding school case, has come back to her old life in New York, hoping to rekindle her friendships with her old cronies and live her life with her parents, but Blair is not excited. Serena has no idea why and Blair treats her badly by ignoring her and writing evil notes about her in class, referring to the tons of gossip that mounds on Serena. This gossip goes from a chicken cult in New England to being pregnant to having a million STDs.

All Blair wants is her pefect life and her boyfriend's affection, but even that is screwed up thanks to her mother's idea of romance with a disgusting tacky man and the fact that Nate has betrayed Blair in a way that is so horrible, Blair would kill.

And then there's the socially retarded underprivileged, such as angst-ridden Brooklynite Vanessa Abrams, who attends school with the rich girls, but hates them for their catty stupidity, her best friend Upper-West-Side Dan Humphrey, the love-starved poet that is generally obsessed with Serena, and his big-chested sister, helpless wannabe Jenny, who worships Serena and can't wait to be just like her.

This series is amazing and fresh. It's a designer-clothed, drunken Sweet Valley High, mixed with The Real World's in-your-face angst and Less Than Zero's drugged-up world of wealthy youth. I recommend it for everyone because you rarely find teen-lit this funny and different and, to be cliche, edgy.

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Summary: HAH
Review: This book is a complete waste of time. If a teen wants to relate she'd be better off reading the Princess Diaries and comparing herself to the princess of genovia. This promotes the "coolness" of drinking, drugs, and sex all under the shallow outer appearance of being in with the gossip. Realistic? Maybe. For about .05% of the teen population. Teens are not let to drink liberally and let's face it, we have never been to a party with favors of kate spade bags. This trash may prove to be a twisted fantasy for some poor teens however it should not even be considered a guilty pleasure.

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Summary: Pretty good book.
Review: This book is quite good if you are interested the the lives of the rich and not-so-famous.

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Summary: It Really Relates!
Review: Annotation: The book "Gossip Girl" is the first book from a series of novels written by Cecily Von Ziegesar. It is about a group of friends, whom live in New York's Upper East Side. They all go to private schools there, and they live in huge apartments with their rich parents. This book is the beginning to a serious of funny, strange, honest books about teenagers and everything they do!

Author Bio: Cecily Von Ziegesar is the wonderful writer of these Gossip Girl novels. She was born and raised in New York City, where she still lives today. She has written many things, about all different people, although this is her first novel. In an interview she had once, she said that it is not hard for her to write about teenagers because she doesn't just think about them as teenagers, but as people. She said that the characters have even become her friends!

Evaluation: "Gossip Girl" is about a group of teenagers, living in New York's Upper East Side. They have "the life" as some might call it. They attend one of the most proper private schools in all of New York, and they live in huge apartments with their rich parents, doing pretty much what they please. In this first book of the series, we meet the characters and what they are all about.
When introduced to Blair Waldorf, we learn that she is one of the most popular girls in school. She is head of many clubs and committees, receives exceptional grades, and is dating the hottest boy in all of New York. That brings us to Nate, Blair's boyfriend. He attends the all boy's private school in New York. Then there is Serena Van Der Woodsen. Serena seems to be blessed with some unheard of beauty. She has just been kicked out of boarding school when we meet her, and Blair is less then thrilled to have her back. They use to be best friends before Serena went away, but Serena never called or even seemed to care while she was away. Serena expects everything to be how it use to be when she comes home, but it is quite the contrary. It seems that all her friends have changed, and they don't even want her around!
Throughout the book, the characters deal with issues that many teenagers face today. Issues of sex, drugs, and money come into play with each character. This book is one of my favorite books because it deals with issues that teens face today. It is a rare book that you can feel like you really relate too. Things just seem to keep going wrong/right that you want to keep reading it! I had a hard time putting it down! I'm excited to see what the rest of the series has to offer!