The Upper Class Novels
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The Upper Class Novels is a new YA book series chronicling the ups and downs of life at an elite New England boarding school. The books have been favorably reviewed and compared to Harry Potter and Gossip Girl. The series is written by three alumni of The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT. The authors, Hobson Brown, Taylor Materne and Caroline Says, discussed their books on Plum TV. [1]
The Upper Class Novels take places at Wellington, a fictitious boarding school in Connecticut. The first book self-titled, The Upper Class [2], pits two roommates from different backgrounds—Laine, the WASP-y field hockey star from Greenwich, and Nikki, the new-money Long Island troublemaker—in a battle for hierachy in a vicious dormitory.
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The New York Times compared The Upper Class to Harry Potter[3]:
“Taking a page from Harry Potter, they turn boarding school into a Hogwarts without magic, though not without dark arts. Reading about the different dorms — with names like Cadwallader, Eliot, Blackstick and Thornfield — recalls Hogwarts' Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Gryffindor houses. But there's no "sorting hat" for the students; they have to scramble for position on their own...The complexity and difference of each girl's struggle to survive the ‘Lord of the Flies’ dynamic of their enclave is admirably drawn — and the authors make sure that neither girl is a caricature. They open the leaded windows wide onto the playing fields of privilege, then, flipping the camera around, expose the far more brutal battle within the ivy-covered walls."
NPR named THE UPPER CLASS a "Hot Summer Read" [4].
The next book in the series is MISS EDUCATED[5], published September 9, 2007.
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Teen VogueTeen Vogue compared MISS EDUCATED to Gossip Girl. [6]
The third book in the series, OFF CAMPUS, goes on sale May, '08.
References:
http://myspace.com/upperclassnovels
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/fashion/10books.htm
http://www.onpointradio.org/features/2007/summer07.asp
http://harperteen.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060850825
The Upper Class; by Hobson Brown, Taylor Materne, Caroline Says; HarperTeen; 05/29/2007; ISBN: 9780060850821