More Books for Gossip Girls Fans

What to Read Next if You Liked The Gossip Girls Series

Jun 23, 2009

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has announced a list of books which appeal to fans of Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girls series.

Fans of Cecily von Ziegesar's popular Gossip Girls series who have read through the series and are hungry for more have nothing to fear. YASLA announced a list of books which appeal to Gossip Girls fans just in time for summer reading season.

Sixteen year old Jenna Boller has it all; her driver's license and a job she loves at her favorite shoe store. Even better, she has been assigned the task of driving Mrs Madeline Gladstone, the crusty president of the store chain, from Chicago to Dallas for an important business meeting. On the road, Jenna gets a chance to demonstrate her passion for shoe salesmanship as well as learn about big business, difficult people, and smarmy business dealings.

A pair of thrift store jeans with seemingly magical qualities (they fit four best friends perfectly, even though the girls are different sizes and shapes) create a bond between the friends as they spend their first summer apart.

After being kicked out of boarding school in New England, Cyd finds herself back in San Francisco with her childhood rag doll and confidante, Gingerbread. When Cyd pushes her permissive parents too far she finds herself first harshly grounded, then sent to her biological father in New York; but summer in the city is not what Cyd expected.

Sixteen year old Macy Queen is headed for a boring summer. Her boyfriend is going away, she has a seriously dull job at the library, and when she's not missing her dead father she'll be studying for her SATs. But everything changes when she meets the insightful and understanding Wes who gets Macy to see life in a whole new way.

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother Where's My Prince? by Melissa Kantor (Hyperion, 2007)

Lucy Norton is a modern-day Cinderella. Her dad is always away on business,and she is stuck with too many chores, a cruel step-mom and bratty stepsisters. A if that isn't bad enough, she just can't seem to fit in at her new school. When she meets Connor, star basketball player, Lucy hopes her luck has finally changed. Will she find her Prince Charming, or is she destined to not live happily ever after?

Fifteen year old Ruby “Roo” Oliver, has had a tough year at Tate Prep. Her boyfriend dumps her for her best friend and a few anxiety attacks later she finds herself writing out a complete list of boyfriends for her shrink, Dr. Z. As Roo recounts the social dramas of boyfriends, friends and cliques in her smartypants “I can't believe this humiliating thing is happening to me” way, she begins to see herself in a revealing new way.

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