"It Had to Be You: Gossip Girl" by Cecily von Ziegesar is a novel full of gossip. In this book, Gossip Girl is a person with a secret identity, who has a website that likes to expose only a select few texts and secrets, targeting the "Upper Eastsiders," which include Serena, Blair, Chuck, and Nate. They are the most popular and most rich students at their school. No one knows who is responsible for this website. Will they be able to explain the texts that Gossip Girl posted? Or will they lose all of their friends as their secrets are leaked?
The Upper Eastsiders all are in high school. Some plan on attending college, while others plan on pursuing burgeoning careers. All of their hard work for keeping a good reputation for their careers can go down the drain if they do not figure out who is running the website. Serena, the most popular girl in the school, faces many problems with the website because she has problems at home that she does not want anyone to know about and Gossip Girl wants to expose her secrets to everyone.
This book is classified as a young-adult fiction. It is very popular book because of the television series that is based on it. The book goes more in depth, with every problem, in comparison to the show. If interested, check out "It Had to Be You: Gossip Girl" to get the latest updates about the Upper Eastsiders.
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