Gossip Girl, an unknown narrator, shares the inside scoop on her friends and foes in a privileged private school in New York City, focusing on the return of the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen, who is rumored to have been kicked out of boarding school.
Fourteen-year-old Georgie, struggling with rage and grief, beings to find his way back to sanity with the help of a sympathetic fellow resident, a patient teacher, and other staff at a school for emotionally disturbed teenagers.
In 1968, when fourteen-year-old Jessie Stackhouse wins a hockey scholarship to an elite New Hampshire boarding school, it seems the only thing standing between him and his dream of one day being the second African American to play in the National Hockey League is the bigotry of the coach, some students, and townspeople.
Seventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor is sent to the Harrow School, an esteemed institution where Britain's best families send their children, but when danger begins to follow Andrew, leading to the death of one of his classmates, Andrew finds himself an outcast and vows to uncover the truth about the mysterious school and its rumored haunting.
The students at Waverly Academy come back to school in January with gossip buzzing about the new brother-sister pair who have taken the school by storm, but as the popular girls are drawn to the handsome brother, his sister plots to become top girl at the school.
Valentine's Day at Waverly Academy is anything but loving when Isla Dresden steals Brett's boyfriend and Tinsley's thunder, and now both girls are out for revenge.
The holiday season brings surprises for all, and while a group of students put a naughty twist Brett Messerschmidt's plans for the annual holiday ball at Waverly Academy, Tinsley Carmichael discovers an unsettling secret about her new boyfriend's past.
Samantha Owens decides to leave her boarding school to finish school in New York City where she is reunited with Riley and introduced to her glamorous lifestyle, but Sam causes a riff in their friendship when she develops a crush on the boy who broke Riley's heart.
Sixteen-year-old Riley Swain, pushed into spending spring break at an upstate New York camp for overweight teens by her father's fiancee, is happy with her weight but finds she has a lot to learn about friendship and love.
Carson, a sixteen-year-old at an expensive private academy for students who have flunked out of other schools, hates everything in the world, including himself, until he meets Christine, who lives alone in a trailer, abandoned by her parents.