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*Updated with new selections 9-7-10*

Brian, Kate. Private series
When fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy, she quickly discovers that the Billings Girls are the most beautiful, intelligent, and powerful group on campus, so Reed tries to become a member.

Brown, Hobson. The upper class series
The seniors have bets on which of the newest members of Wellington boarding school--blonde, well-bred Laine or her roommate, flirty Nikki--will crash and burn first.

Calonita, Jen. Secrets of my Hollywood life series
Longing to experience the life of a "normal" teenager, sixteen-year-old actress Kaitlin Burke assumes a false identity to attend a local high school.

Conrad, Lauren. L.A. candy series
When nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts is cast in a new reality show, she discovers that the fame and fortune of her new life come at a high price to herself and her friendships.

Dean, Zoey. A-list series
Seventeen-year-old blueblood Anna Percy leaves Manhattan to spend the second half of her senior year with her father in Los Angeles and quickly becomes involved in the lives of the rich and famous at Beverly Hills High School.

Decter, Ed. Chloe Gamble series
Chloe goes to Los Angeles with her mother and brother in order to become an actress, but things take a bad turn after she gets a crazy agent, sibling rivalry rears its ugly head, and her mother turns into a pushy stage parent.

De la cruz, Melissa. The au pairs series
Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family, and in spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better.

Divine, L. Drama high series
When Jayd starts dating a half-Jewish white boy, her ex-boyfriend KJ starts trouble, while her enemy Misty and an anti-black teacher make her life miserable, forcing her to rely on Mama's magic to get through another day at Drama High.

Gramont, Nina de. Gossip of the starlings
When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the charismatic and beautiful Skye Butterfield, daughter of the famous Senator Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is a young woman hell-bent on a trajectory of self-destruction, and she doesn't care who is taken down with her.

Godbersen, Anna. The Luxe - Rumors - Envy & Splendor
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.

Hollings, Anastasia. Beautiful world
Having spent her life trying to fit in at the elite boarding schools she attended following her untenured professor father around the world, seventeen-year-old Amelia Warner wonders if she can fake a high-society identity and become friends with New York heiress Courtney Moore.

Jackson, Lucy. Posh
Set in the private school world of Manhattan's Upper East Side, Posh tracks the lives of a group of teenagers and the adults who hope to control them.

Maude, Rachel. Poseur series
Four prep school girls clash when they try to form their own fashion label for a school assignment, but they ultimately discover that their differences make for surprisingly creative results.

Mechling, Lauren & Laura Moser. The rise & fall of a 10th grade social climber *and sequels*
Mimi's first hour at The Baldwin School in New York City leaves her spinning. Rubbing shoulders with the offspring of diplomats and celebrities, Mimi finds herself going from one bizarre situation to the next, at risk of losing her sense of self and hurting the people she has come to love.

Millner, Denene. Hotlanta series
Living a privileged life in Atlanta, wealthy and beautiful African American twin sisters, Sydney and Lauren, must deal with family secrets and scandal when their father is released from prison.

Minter, J. The insiders series & inside girls novels
In downtown New York City, a sophisticated, stylish high school junior is already having trouble keeping his group of lifelong friends together when his wild cousin Kelli arrives from St. Louis and stirs things up.

Myracle, Lauren. Rhymes with witches
High school freshman Jane believes that she would do anything to be popular until she is selected to be in the school's most exclusive clique and learns that popularity has a price.

Oliver, Jasmin. Project fashion series
With fashion as their common link, Sinead, Frankie, and Marina become fast friends at a British design school where they work to keep each other on track when external distractions, such as boys and partying, enter the mix.

Pagliarulo, Antonio. The celebutantes series
When fabulously wealthy sixteen-year-old triplets Lexington, Park, and Madison Hamilton appear to be involved in the murder of a powerful magazine editor, they decide to do some investigating of their own before the police and paparazzi completely ruin their lives.

Rennison, Louise. Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series
Presents the humorous journals of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

Scott, Kieran. She's so dead to us
Told in two voices, high school juniors Ally, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.

Shephard, Sara. Pretty little liars series
When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.

Standiford, Natalie. Dating game series
When three high school sophomores set up a weblog as a class project to research whether girls or boys are more sex-crazed--and to play matchmaker, their own messy love lives become even more complicated.

Zindel, Lizabeth. Girl of the moment
Fifteen-year-old Lily has a lot to learn when she spends the summer working as the intern of a spoiled and powerful Hollywood starlet.

 
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