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The A-List may be the successor to Gossip Girl

Jenna King, Design Editor

If you are not ready for another addiction, do not read this. The A-list novels are the best books since the Gossip Girl series. Like Gossip Girl, The A-list deals with rich kids and their entertaining lives.

In the first book, The A-list, Anna Percy makes the transition from Waldorf-Astoria teas in the Big Apple to LA lunches at Spago. She joins her father, a movie industry mogul, at his Beverly Hills mansion. She is set to spend the rest of her high school career at LA High. When she left New York she left Cynthia Baltres, her best friend since she peed on Anna’s eight-thousand-dollar Hermés Kelly handbag.

Next comes Samantha (Sam) Sharpe, daughter of uber movie star Jackson Sharpe. Sam is the typical Hollywood daughter, dreaming big and sick of being overshadowed. To add insult to injury, Sam is not what one would call a ‘Beverly Hills Barbie’. Sam is thrown another curve when her father pulls a Kevin Costner and marries Poppy Sinclair, pregnant with his child and half his age. Then comes Cammila (Cammie) Sheppard, Queen of LA High. Her father is a bigwig producer. Cammie has been fed from a gold spoon for all her life until her new step mom’s daughter, Valley girl Mia, moves in. Talk about a power shift. The girl is only thirteen and she is awarded run of the house.

On the plane from the East Coast, a very important person enters the mix. LA turned Ivy League Ben Birnbaum rescues Anna from the seatmate from you know where. The ever so thankful Anna cannot resist the acquired East coast charm and a new friendship begins. Little does she know that she has just put a target on her back. Ben, of course, is ex-boy toy of none other than queen Cammie. See how the claws fly in book one.

In books two and three, the plot thickens when new flames ignite and others are blown out. Oh, do not worry. Nothing happens that a day poolside at Beverly Hills Hotel cannot heal or maybe a trip to Veronique’s!

If this has not made you want to run to the closest Barnes&Noble and grab these books, then you must be dead. Don’t worry; there are more books to come. Expect a new one early 2005. Enjoy!