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Plot Summary of Because I'm Worth It
"Blair and Serena have managed to repair their fractured friendship and are now leading a peer group at their high school. During a peer group session Jenny confesses that she's considering breast reduction surgery to decrease the size of her double D's. Blair makes the mistake of admitting she's considering breast augmentation surgery, a story which hits the school rumor mill as soon as the meeting concludes. Serena is head over heels in love with Blair's stepbrother, Aaron, and announcing it to the whole world. Blair is quite annoyed with Serena's happiness since she still isn't over her relationship with Nate. Dan and Vanessa finally make love. Minutes later Vanessa discovers that she has gotten into NYU, which makes Dan feels insecure about his own college applications. Blair makes a drastic hair decision and cuts her hair into a pixie do in order to resemble her idol Audrey Hepburn. When Blair finds out that Aaron got early acceptance to Harvard, she goes into total bitch mode. Blair is desperate to get into Yale and a bit steamed that she has to wait until April to find out her fate. Nate heads into a downward spiral of drinking and drugging. While shopping Serena is discovered as a model and asked to be in a fashion show in Bryant Park. When Blair arrives at her Yale interview she is instantly smitten with older man Owen Wells, who may just determine whether or not she's going to Yale."
Sandra Calhoune, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Because I'm Worth It
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Age group of kid(s) in story: - high school
Loving/sexing? - guy chasing

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - a teen
Profession/status: - student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 (a significant amount)
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - New York
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing
Unusual Style: - No single main character?
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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