"Everyone at elite Waverly Academy actually looks forward to the freezing month of January: it's Jan Plan, four blissful weeks when cool independent projects replace hectic schedules and boring classes. Wild weeknight parties, late-night trips to the crater, and plenty of time to gossip about it all? Yes, please! Jenny Humphrey can't wait to start her solo art project. But the real masterpiece is Isaac Dresden, the new dean's gorgeous son, who's taken...

Reveals the truth about how the scandalous Gossip Girl column originated through a recounting of the girls' sophomore year and the intensely romantic summer that followed.

During Thanksgiving break, Waverly students experience changes in their relationships with one another and with new acquaintances as most travel home, but Tinsley and Callie, still upset about Easy's expulsion, join Jennifer in New York City.

Scandal abounds as the uptown girls take "time to shop, drink, eat, and make merry," winding up their days as Constance Billard students with a Senior Spa Day that is crashed by The Raves rock group and assorted other guys.

The wealthy, teenaged Carlyle triplets make a place for themselves in the high-society scene of Manhattan's Upper East Side.