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Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard to attend Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York horse country where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of an excellent time.

Determined to leave her Manhattan past behind her, Jenny sets off to Waverly with big plans of reinventing herself. She'll be a goddess--she's a sophisticated city girl, after all!--and will find a boy who can properly worship her. But that's going to be a little tricky since her self-absorbed new roommates, Callie Vernon and Brett Messerschmidt, aren't exactly there to help--unless there's something in it for them.

Hot guys, new intrigue, and more delicious gossip all add up to more trouble than ever for Jenny. But if getting caught with boys and going up against the Disciplinary Committee is what it takes, Jenny's ready. She'll do all that and more to be The It Girl.
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    It Girl
  2. Print length
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  3. Language
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  5. Publication date
    November 2, 2005
  6. Grade level
    10 and up
  7. Reading age
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  8. Dimensions
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  9. ISBN-10
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  10. ISBN-13
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Grade 9 Up-Jenny Humphrey, kicked out of Constance Ballard prep school for being a bad influence, decides she'll do anything to become one of the popular girls at Waverly Academy. Like the author's Gossip Girls series, the story is full of underage drinking, smoking, foul language, snarkiness, and label dropping. Sleeping around is casually accepted. Jenny rooms with two almost interchangeable big names on campus: Brett, who falls for the uber-rich newbie teacher, and Callie, who manipulates both Jenny and her boyfriend, Easy. The two girls are barely speaking because each one blames the other for their friend Tinsley's expulsion. Fearing that she will also be kicked out, Callie talks vulnerable Jenny into taking the blame when Easy gets caught nearly naked in their room. But Jenny is as attracted to Easy as he is to her. The school's dirty little secret is that you can get away with almost anything as long as you are from a legacy family of donors, which may explain why Tinsley is being reinstated at the books' end-just in time for a sequel. Jenny's references to Old and New Jenny are more confusing than illuminating as is the starry-eyed innocence that uncharacteristically peeks out of her persona at convenient times. Pass on this paean to possessions, perkiness, and ample breasts for something more substantial, unless you have insatiable Gossip Girl fans.-Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA
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Gr. 9-12. This first title in the It Girl series, a spin-off of the Gossip Girl books, follows sophomore Jenny Humphrey to Waverly Academy, an exclusive boarding school in upstate New York. As new girl on campus, Jenny relishes the idea that she can leave behind her somewhat tarnished reputation, earned during her freshman year in New York City. She is put in the same room as the school's queen bees, Callie and Brett, and soon finds herself caught up in a scandal that involves Callie's nearly naked boyfriend on Jenny's bed. Although this contains many of the elements that make the Gossip Girl series such addictive reading, the writing lacks punch. In the Gossip Girl books, an anonymous narrator contributes e-mails that bind the story together with deliciously catty previews and overviews of the plot. Here, e-mails from different characters further splinter the multivoiced narrative. Still, that won't stop fans from happily digging into a new adventure in conspicuous consumption and name-dropping. Debbie Carton
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Poppy (November 2, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316011851
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316011853
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 15 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 10 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.24 x 0.75 x 7.99 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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A writer who is definitely of the world about which she writes—she attended a fancy Manhattan prep school and lived to tell all about it. She walks the walk and talks the talk, so her characters and their conversations and antics ring completely true.

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Bookworm2502
5.0 out of 5 stars One word: Perfect
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2013
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Okay. I can't express how addictive these books were. I fell in love with the character's, one by one. And I am not surprised, Cecily Van Ziegsaar manages to capture the reader. The books full of twists and turns, it isn't one big cliché. It's oozing with gossip, and it is like a drug that you can't stop taking.

Read it and hopefully you'll find it as thrilling as I did.
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5.0 out of 5 stars For gossip girl fans
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2017
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Not a big reader but got this for a time killer and read through this in a few days. If you like gossip girl you would enjoy this.
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L. B.
3.0 out of 5 stars Review of a Private School Teen
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2010
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Well I decided to try this book out after hearing about it from others my age and younger, and also from seeing girls with it everywhere i went. Now after a few chapters I realized that the book is something i would put in the 'Teen trash' category, but something about teen trash just makes you unable to put it down. After all, I am a teen.

It's not that the book is well written or has a unique and brilliant story line (because it doesn't), but simply that you can get so caught up in the dilemmas of the characters that you would like to finish the book to see what exactly happens.

I really didn't like the main character. I thought her priorities were totally messed up, and all that trouble she's in is definitely her own fault (well 90% of it). But after a while i just had to say to myself that some of my friends are like this and they really and truly don't realize their ridiculousness.

What really shocked me was how much the students smoked (cigs and pot). Seriously, they are like chain smokers. The cursing really was no surprise, because, let's face it, I hear it all the time at school.

I will be reading the second book for sure, because I honestly want to see what more trouble these characters could possibly get themselves into, and how they'll deal with it. However, when I get tired of the series, I will have no problem putting it down.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The books are fun and quick reads
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2015
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The books are fun and quick reads. The constant use of brand names to show how fashionable the girls is a little much for me though...
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Pali Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for a 9-10 year old
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2019
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My granddaughter enjoyed the book with her Nana
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Leon D. Spears
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2018
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baby girl loves it
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Ann Coleman
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2013
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This was a great book. I love girls drama books. I really enjoyed and I'm about to purchase the second book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2023
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Barely a plot line, characters aren’t like able, so many name drops of labels and designers crammed in to every single description of clothing, makeup, bags, etc. What a disappointment for fans of Gossip Girl.
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Raj
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in Australia on November 10, 2020
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Bought for my daughter. She enjoyed the read.
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chloe1995
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2013
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I have watched all of the episodes of gossip girl and I loved it, it was a great show but I have never read any of the gossip girl books. I was having a look at the books and came across the 'it girl' series. I always loved Jenny in the show and I through that it would be a good book, as in the show you don't get to see any of this. Great book loved it defiantly would recommend it and i will be buy the next book in the series.
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Clem Seymour
5.0 out of 5 stars Bloody brillant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2014
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Just what I needed hence the rating. I totally get this book as having been at boarding school. I know that everyone wants to fit in however just be yourself and never look back
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RXK
3.0 out of 5 stars new jenny
Reviewed in Japan on December 25, 2005
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The Gossip Girlシリーズを読んでいる方にはお馴染みの登場人物、ジェニーが主人公になって、彼女が全寮制のプレイベートスクールに転向してからのお話し。

話しの展開のリズムは、The Gossip Girlと変わらず、ジェニーのワイルドさも変わりません。見所は、新しい環境の中でどうやって自分らしさを見つけていくかっていう姿だと思います。って言っても、あくまでもThe Gissip Girlのノリは変わらないから、そんなディープな話しじゃなく、ジューシーなゴシップも耐えないから、pleasure reading には丁度いい軽さですよ。
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Enchantika
4.0 out of 5 stars oh, its on!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2014
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Not normally a book I would go for but I needed something out of the usual fantasy style novels so I chose this.

It girl follows a newbie to Waverly, her name is Jenny and she gets put in a room with two of the most popular girls in the boarding school. She hasn't had the best start though, her stuff has been dropped off in the boys dorm as the school mistakenly thought she was a Mr not a Miss, and to top it off there's already rumors going round that she was a stripper!!

It girl follows Jenny and her two roomies Brett and Callie through a short easy read of school drama and bitchiness, and it doesn't stop there.

Overall It girl was exactly as expected, the writing was simplistic and whilst I wouldn't say it was great story telling it did keep me somewhat interested, mostly because the characters are all relatable. I did have one little issue though, every page pretty much brings up at least one designer name, It got on my nerves quite a bit but I will let it slide because I liked the chapter titles. I did expect there to be more bitchiness and typical high school banter than what was given but maybe thats all to follow in the next few books to this series.

I wouldn't rush to buy the next one but its certainly going to be bought for another light read. Im pretty sure the second one will be a lot more gripping though
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