Avalon High

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Avalon High is a Young Adult novel by Meg Cabot, published in 2005. The book follows teenager Ellie Harrison, who has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year long sabbatical to continue their medieval studies in nearby DC. Her new high school, Avalon High, seems like a typical high school with the stereotypical students: Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, and Will, the senior class president, quarterback, and all around good guy. But not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be, not even Ellie herself. In spite of Ellie's budding friendship with Will, who she feels like she has met in another lifetime, she cannot figure out just how involved she should get in the drama unfolding in his life. And what of the odd parallels between their lives and the Arthurian mythology that her parents study, including that of Elaine of Astolat, the Lady of Shalott? Why does she feel herself falling for Will when she knows that he is portrayed as King Arthur, especially when she knows that Lady of Shalott fell for Lancelot?