Friendship, Gossip, and all that Girl Stuff

Gossip Girl Cover Gossip Girl by Cecily Ziegesar

At St Albans school for boys and Spenford school for girls some of the meanest, richest and most petty teens walk the halls. With too much money and not enough sense these teens are grouped into loved starved poor-little-rich kids and a clique of horrible people who enjoy being nasty to each other. Enter Gossip Girl. The mysterious author of a sizzling tell-all website not only keeps track of what the boys and girls of these most exclusive schools are up to, but will also expose things that they really didn’t want everyone else to know.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Cover The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

A pair of jeans for $3.49 is a bargain, but nothing special –right? Carmen thinks so until her and her closest friends Lena, Tibby and Bridget each try on the pants. Though they’re all different shapes and sizes the jeans seem to fit each girl perfectly. The girls dub them the ‘magic pants’ and vow to share them equally over the summer – their very first summer apart.

Join the pants as they travel from girl to girl, with Lena falling in love in Greece, Bridget getting mixed up with the older soccer coach at camp in Baja, Carmen visiting her father in South Carolina, and Tibby, left at home alone to work at Wallman’s. The pants are the accompaniment to the girls discovering first loves, fear, jealousy and sadness in the summer months before the junior year of high school.

The Clique Cover The Clique by Lisi Harrison

Money talks and clothes matter in wealthy Westchester County. When Claire’s father has a run of bad luck he moves the family from Florida to live in his college buddy’s guest house. Bad luck for Claire. Head of a clique at Octavian County Day School, Massie has no intention of being nice to Claire simply because she’s camping out in her guest house. In fact, she’s determined to be quite the opposite. Massie and her group of the beautiful and popular set out to torment Claire, but what happens when Claire decides to fight back?

Uglies by Scott Westerfield

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally’s best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

This Tiny Perfect World by Lauren Gibaldi

Penny has her whole life planned out for senior year and beyond, only to have those plans suddenly upended during a pivotal summer in a prestigious theater camp.

When the Sky Fell on Spendor by Emily Henry

Splendor, Ohio. If you weren’t a casualty of the explosion at the local steel mill, chances are a loved one was. Five years after the explosion, Franny still has to stand by and do nothing as her brother lies in a coma. She has found some solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirrored her own. The group calls themselves The Ordinary, and they spend their free time investigating local ghost stories and legends, filming their exploits for their small following of YouTube fans. Until one evening when the strange and dangerous thing they film isn’t fiction– it’s a bright light, something massive hurdling toward them from the sky. And when it crashes and the teens go to investigate… everything changes.

Ask the Passengers by A. S. King

Astrid Jones copes with her small town’s gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she’s sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they’ll know what to do with it. Maybe it’ll make them happy. Maybe they’ll need it. Her mother doesn’t want it, her father’s always stoned, her perfect sister’s too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. There’s no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she’s trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love–and asking the right questions–will affect the passengers’ lives, and her own, for the better

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