Gossip Girl

About Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl is a series of novels written for teenagers, by Cecily von Ziegesar. Gossip Girl is also the nom de plume of the narrator, and the title of the first novel in the series. It has also been adapted into a TV series airing on The CW and CTV. It spawned two spin-off book series, The It Girl and Gossip Girl: The Carlyles.

The Gossip Girl series revolves around a group of teenagers, three of whom live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. They gossip, but they also deal with sex and relationship problems. They attend elite private single-sex schools, where their lives are watched by the unseen title character who writes a blog about them. Despite attending school, they never seem to have homework or academic difficulties. The main characters are Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald, Jenny Humphrey, Dan Humphrey,Vanessa Abrams and Chuck Bass. Through the course of the books the characters show how they deal with all the problems that come with being part of, or associating with, the upper-east side. Serena comes back from a boarding school after leaving without notice. She comes back for a reason that no one knows. She gets back with her best friend, Blair, and resumes her "normal" life of high end designer clothing and parties with booze.

The private girls' school of the series, Constance Billard School for Girls, is an exaggerated version of the author's alma mater, the Nightingale-Bamford School.