The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool — set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents: in this second novel, this is the time they are interviewing for college (Ivy League only, naturally). Gossip Girl is the ultimate in sophistication, scandal and luxury — in fact if Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City had a younger sister, there is no doubt she would be 'gossip girl'!