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Jenny Humphrey departs Constance Billard for Waverly Academy, a prestigious boarding school in New York horse country, to reinvent herself as an "It Girl". Surrounded by glamorous, self‑absorbed classmates, she navigates new romantic interests, gossip, and the challenges of school discipline while trying to leave her Manhattan past behind.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Cecily von Ziegesar
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