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You Know You Love Me  By:Cecily von Ziegesar

__** Publishers Weekly **__
 * College interviews, romantic troubles and a fancy wedding photographed for Vogue dominate this second installment of von Ziegesar's frothy but fun series about rich Manhattan prep school kids and the gossip Web site tracking their lives. Blair Waldorf's mother is marrying her "seriously tacky" boyfriend on Blair's birthday and has chosen the bulimic overachiever's former best friend Serena as a bridesmaid (Blair will be maid of honor). Meanwhile, "hunky" Nate avoids Blair (he's secretly seeing chesty Jenny Humphrey), and the compounded stress makes her act like a "freakshow" during her Yale interview. Blonde bombshell Serena is disturbed by poet Dan's intense affections, struggles through her own interview at Brown and scores first prize in a school film contest. The plot culminates at the wedding, where the girls' boy troubles come to a head. As with her Gossip Girl, von Ziegesar creates a complete world: the characters get drunk, shop and indulge in spa treatments plus, the film contest prize is two tickets to Cannes. While this is still strictly a guilty pleasure, the story lines are better developed in this volume and the characters show more growth. But it's their outrageous lifestyles and antics and the snide omniscient narrator that will keep readers turning the pages. Ages 15-up. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. **

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** " The bed in the Motel 6 was loaded with snack food. Chips Ahoy, Fritos, Wise potato chips, Smart Food, dairy-free chocolate pudding, Hawaiian Punch, soy Swiss cheese, Ritz crackers, and, of course, beer in cans." **     __** School Library Journal **__ ** "A moment later a head full of short brown dreadlocks darted out from behind the library door. The head belonged to a boy Blair's age, with big brown eyes, pale skin, and red lips that curved up at the corners." **
 * Grade 9 Up-In the spirit of Gossip Girl (Little, Brown, 2002) comes You Know You Love Me, which deals with the same New York City friends. The novel runs much like a soap opera, except that the main characters are all rich and snobby chic 17-year-olds who want what they want and let nothing get in the way. Blair's mother has just announced that she will marry a short, stubby man of high society, Cyrus Rose, after a two-month courtship, and Blair must deal with a whole new family life, including Aaron, a dreadlocked hippie stepbrother. She has disowned her best friend, Serena, who slept with her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend, Nate. He has begun to return the affections of ninth-grader Jennifer, whose brother, a hopeless romantic, is pining over Serena. Gossip Girl is a chat room for relaying information to and about the group. A great read for those who like romance and drama related in a sassy manner, complete with obscenities and some alcohol, drugs, and sex. Nicole M. Marcuccilli, Glenview Public Library, IL Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. **

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__** Review **__
 * An attempt to disentangle the myth from the reality of walking the plank, pieces of eight, buried treasure, pirate galleons, peg-legs and eye patches. The book aims to undermine many people's misconceptions about pirates, and inform the reader what really happened "come hell and high water". **

** "Dan looked up from his notebook. He'd started another poem called "Broken Feet." "Splintered wood, flat tires, broken glass. Fate wields its unfair axe. Collapse." **     __** Publisher's Weekly **__ ** ﻿"A nasty, guilty pleasure. The book has the effect of gossip itself - once you enter, it's hard to extract yourself." **

Why i choose these items Quote 1: I choose this quote because it shows what Aaron liked to do. He just wanted a cheap motel to stay in and a whole bunch of junk food. Blair wanted to stay in a big nice expensive hotel and have room service but, you don't always get what you want. Quote 2: I choose this quote because it explains what Aaron, her new brother, looks like. She is trying to show you that she doesn't like him very much just because of the way he looks. Quote 3: I choose this quote because it shows that Dan does like poetry. The Poem he named broken feet actually tells a little bit about the story because the poem is about love and so is the book. He is talking about how love isn't that great. When he says "Splintered wood, flat tires, broken glass", he is talking about love is just like all of those things. The end of it says" Fate wields its unfair axe. Collapse." That means that fate holds it all and at anytime you could lose it. Video 1: I choose this video because it shows all of the characters and what they look like. There is a TV series made out of this book and it is the beginning of the show or how they introduce everyone so you kind of know what is going on. Video 2: I choose this video because it is part of the TV show and is showing you what is happening so far. It is pretty much like a preview to the book because almost everything that they show in the video is in the book.