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  <title><![CDATA[It Had to Be You (Gossip Girl, Prequel)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Taking place over their sophomore year, &lt;EM&gt;It Had to Be You&lt;/EM&gt; unveils the secrets behind the hot and sultry summer that Blair, Serena, and Nate's love triangle begins--and there's a lot more to this story than anyone realizes.  Find out how Blair first snagged Nate, why Serena really left for boarding school, and how the legendary Gossip Girl column began.  This beautifully jacketed hardcover addition to the #1 bestselling series will thrill author Cecily von Ziegesar's fans and will undo some of the myths created in the 11 previous novels, so don't believe everything you've read so far.  After all, this is Gossip Girl. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;And keep your eye out for more &lt;EM&gt;Gossip Girl&lt;/EM&gt; novels--featuring a brand-new cast of fabulous characters-- coming in Spring 2008!</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">10</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1998</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>It Had to Be You (Gossip Girl Prequel)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Cecily von Ziegesar]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Dec 27 14:22:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about how Serena van der Woodsen started falling for Nate and what led to their affair, and why she left Constance Billard School for Girls. When Blair Waldorf began to like Audrey Hepburn and when her dad left her mom for another man, when she first fell in love with Nate, and what cau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40495549">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 24 03:51:27 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 25 06:26:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I borrowed this from the local library because there's been a lot of talk about the Gossip Girl series, especially since the telly show came out. Now, it is VERY rare that I won't finish a book if I start it, and even rarer that I won't at least give it a good chance, but this book? I wouldn't want ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22860627">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 21 17:04:07 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book because it is so unlike my life!<br/>This is the prequel to the &quot;Gossip Girl&quot; series. (So its what happened before all the stuff in the series).<br/>I haven't read any other ones besides this one, and now I want to read the rest of them.<br/>But someone said t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43519345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20269087">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 15 20:56:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 15 20:58:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, I am embarrassed to admit that at my age I bought this book!  I fell in love with the tv series (yes embarrassed) but what can I say, I am hooked!  This book, however, promises to reveal what happened before the tv series started and it revealed literally nothing new.... nothing!  It was also v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20269087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52470608">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Apr 26 04:36:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Over time I've grown to known and love our favorite Upper East Side scandal-makers. We have followed their every move - thanks to the help of a little birdie named Gossip Girl - and accompanied them as they played the field, played hard to get, broke hearts, found love, shopped 'till they dropped, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52470608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54030347">
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 26 12:49:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p> Ever wanted to know what happened before to the kids before the series, <u>Gossip Girl</u>, ever started? Well, here's your chance. You get to find out what really happened to Serena before she went to boarding school, along with what happened to her with Nate, and her best friend Blair, and what got Jenn...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54030347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67780563">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder if I should have read the rest of the Gossip Girl series before checking out this prequel?  In any case, my opinion of the series remains the same - it's fun, juicy, addicting, but I could stomach it so much better if these were 20-somethings instead of 15-year-olds!  The sexual situations ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67780563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[       &quot;It Had To Be You&quot; is behind all the secrets on Blair Serena Nate. How did Nate get hooked on drugs? How Nate decided between Blair and Serena. And how more stuff that has happened between Blair and Serena. And don't forget on why Serena left to go to boarding school. Excatly why Bl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74089729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39812573">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 10 15:10:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 13 05:30:15 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading the book “Gossip Girl – It Had to be you” by Cecily von Ziegesar, I gained much more knowledge about friends, betrayal, lies etc, than before. This book correlates to me and two other people. Just like there were three best friends in the book, I was also in a friendship where th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39812573">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 28 09:25:46 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 28 09:25:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a grown woman.  I am hooked on the Gossip Girl books.  This happened to me because the audiobook of the first Gossip Girl came with the dvds of the tv series.  I innocently popped the cd in my car for the commute and was instantly addicted. It was like reading gossip blogs on the Internet.  I p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57372157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59039008">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 09 14:11:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[     This is the beginning of gossip girl, Blair and Serena are best friends and Nate is still single. Dan has illusions of Serena and Jenny is taking breast pills. What will gossip girl find out and will we find out who she is?<br/>     I can make a text to text connection, In Private Reed and Tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59039008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72015983">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really helps to explain everything from the course of the entire series! Like why Serena went off to boarding school, What happened to Blair and her family, how Jenny got huge breasts, how Nate got addicted to marajuanna, how Blair got her ruby ring, how Dan started writing poetry and got ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72015983">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this after finishing the series, which may have been a bad idea, but I don't think it was out when I first started this series.  The prequel just delves deeper into the characters' lives before the first book started, but the subsequent books explained the important parts.  The prequel was a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76069120">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>It Had To Be You</u><br/><br/>By Cecily von Ziegesar<br/>401pp. 151 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001.<br/>17th Street Productions, an Alloy, Inc., company. $8.99<br/>ISBN-13: 9780316017695<br/><br/><u>It Had To Be You</u> by Cecily von Ziegesar is the prequel to <u>Gossip Girl</u>, the first book in the Go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59214772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30306902">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was interesting as it was the first GG book I had read for the first time after seeing the tv show, so I kept seeing and hearing the characters as they are on TV (which obviously does not work well for Rufus or Vanessa, for example, nor really for Jenny). It's quite entertaining, and actually d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30306902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How I Came To Read This Book: Something possessed me to buy it, despite having given up on the GG series several years ago.<br/><br/>The Plot: New York's Upper East Side Prep Schoolers are about to have the time of their lives - not that they haven't dabbled a bit already. Best friends Serena, Nat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25451657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the prequel of the gossip girl books. The first one that was written last. It starts off talking about the lives of the rich and beautiful fifteen year olds Nate,Serena, and Blair. Blair has been crushing on Nate forever. Serena is the girl that every guy wants and Blair just happens to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22930239">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Title: It had to be you (Gossip girl prequel)<br/>Author: Cecily von Ziegesar<br/>Copyright date: October 2007<br/>Publisher: Little, brown<br/>How many pages: 401 pgs<br/>How long it took me to read: 17 days<br/>Category: Fiction<br/>I learned about this book from: being in the loop.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24928481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     This book is about how Serena van der Woodsen started falling for Nate and what led to their affair, and why she left Constance Billard School for Girls. When Blair Waldorf began to like Audrey Hepburn and when her dad left her mom for another man, when she first fell in love with Nate.  How Na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39648168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read this book, I had already read some of the books in the series. I think it was written wonderfully, just like all of the books. I found it extremely helpful because there was quite a bit of Mystery surrounding how Blair and Nate came to be, and why Serena left for boarding school. I thoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70776140">more...</a>]]></body>
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