Von Ziegesar, Cecily

Elite Waverly Academy's standards of conduct are strained when Callie and Tinsley recruit a prospective student who is visiting campus to spy for them, in order to implicate Jenny as the arsonist who burned down an antique barn at the Miller farm.

Jenny Humphrey escapes expulsion after the Miller Farm burns down, and tries to unmask her secret admirer while everybody at Waverly Academy talks about her, and Easy Walsh dumps Callie when he learns that she and Tinsley tried to get Jenny kicked out.

During Thanksgiving break, Waverly students experience changes in their relationships with one another and with new acquaintances as most travel home, but Tinsley and Callie, still upset about Easy's expulsion, join Jennifer in New York City.

The wealthy, teenaged Carlyle triplets make a place for themselves in the high-society scene of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Blair and Serena, who go to an exclusive private school in Manhattan, are no longer best friends but are still both consumed with thoughts of boyfriends and college.

Jenny Humphrey's escapades at the elite Waverly Academy in New York's horse country come to the attention of former campus queen Tinsley Carmichael as the two compete for the title of "It Girl.".

After time spent apart, making new friends and having new experiences, Blair, Serena, Nate, Dan, and Vanessa are reunited when they come home from college for the holidays, but they discover that old habits are quick to resurface in familiar settings.

Serena returns to the Upper East Side from boarding school, her beauty and other charms threatening to steal the boyfriends and other treasured possessions of Blair and her cohorts.

Serena, Blair, Nate, Chuck, and Dan return to the city for their holiday breaks, only to learn that college has changed them all and they are no longer the immature friends they were in high school.

Having left her elite Manhattan private school to attend an equally exclusive New York State boarding school, sophomore Jenny Humphrey sets out to become the most alluring girl on campus.