Gossip Girl [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Cecily von Ziegesar (Author), Christina Ricci (Reader), Cecily von Ziegesar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003 | Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Gossip Girl

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep--sometimes with each other.

S is back from boarding school, and if we aren't careful, she's going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn't fit into, steal our boyfriends' hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I'll be watching closely...

You know you love me,
gossip girl

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Cecily von Ziegesar has always lived in New York City. This is her first novel, although she's written lots of things about lots of people. She's already working on a sequel, so be careful what you do or say and who you're seen with.

From AudioFile

This bit of fluff is apparently intended for teenaged girls from middle school to high school. A vapid exploration of meaningless relationships; shallow, materialistic girls; and their preoccupations, the production is like listening in on a teenaged girl's conference call. Why a talented actress like Christina Ricci consented to be attached to this recording is a mystery; she seems disconnected from the material, endowing it with distance and coolness. Maria DeLuca provides the "gossip" in a voice hard to distinguish from Ricci's. The full GOSSIP GIRL product line is also on a Web site, which one concludes is a popular watering hole for teens. D.J.B. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Audio CD
• Publisher: Hachette Audio; Abridged edition (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586215701
• ISBN-13: 978-1586215705
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 5.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,999,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Who is GOSSIP GIRL?, April 26, 2004

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Emily (Somewhere Over the Rainbow) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is one of those that you can't put down. It's full of the drama that surrounds the upper east side of Manhattan. I would recommend this book for anyone who is looking for a good read that is just fun. This book leaves you with a burning question in your head: Just who is Gossip Girl?

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SOME VERY TASTY DISH, January 22, 2004

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Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gossip Girl (Audio CD)

Who doesn't like gossip? Be honest now. Well, sit back and don't miss a word because "Gossip Girl" is going to dish for you. She's a part of the rich and fatuous set from Manhattan's Upper East Side where too much is never enough, whether it's too much sex, too much drugs or too much alcohol.
Christina Ricci has the patois down pat as does Maria deLuca who delivers the emails from "Gossip Girl." Young girls of a certain age (say 10 - 13) will undoubtedly be fascinated by this tale that gives tell-all new dimensions. It's the stuff of which their worlds are made - boys, parties, shopping (with no credit limit?).
Before long listeners will feel as if they're a part of the Serena/Blair crowd at a tony school for girls. They'll empathize and anguish through the fictional gals hopes and predicaments.
"Gossip Girl" has become a bit of a phenomenon sprouting a website and other works from Cecily von Ziegesar. That's how it is with gossip - you can never get enough and are eager for the latest.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gossip Girl, November 6, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)

Blair Waldorf has the prefect life, living in New York city, going to one of the top schools and the best friends anyone could have and the cutest boyfriend. Blair life is like a movie everything that happens could relate to a drama, or soap on television. About a year ago Serena van der Woodsen used to be the most popular and gorgeous girl everyone admired, she was the girl every boy wants and every girl wants to be. She had the kind of smile you might try and imitate posing in the bathroom mirror like an idiot. The magnetic, delicious, "you can't stop looking at me, can you?" mile supermodels spend years perfecting, well Serena smiled like that with out even trying. The whole Wan der Woodsen family was all tall, blond, thin and super-poised and never did anything, playtennis, hail a cab, eat spaghetti, go to the toilet with out maintaining their cool. Serena Especially. She was gifted with the kind of cool ness you can't acquire by buying the right handbag or jeans. Everyone loved and enveyed Serena. But this was all before she went away to boarding school a year ago and year very very, very, best friend Blair took over and she was the one everyone now adored. When Serena went away she never called Blair or wrote her everyday like she promised the only letter she got from her was a postcard saying that " I love France, I'm having so much fun, I miss you!!! Love, Serena"
And then one day Serena just comes back from boarding school and everyone hears all of these rumors that she got kicked out because she had diese and she got addicted to drugs and has a baby in France and they all come running to Blair and asks what happened and if everything was true, and Blair being Serenas best friend does not know anything and makes up lies to prove that they are still best friends. Serena shows up at party and acts just like its always been and like everything is fine and as if she had never left. But all her old friends feel that everything has changed when she moved away and she cant just come into their lives and act as thought nothing happened. Serena is very upset about this so she goes through the book acting just as cool but trying to win her friendships back. Read the book to find out if everything turns out Serena's way.