The Upper Class

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The first novel in the series Upper Class Novels. [1]

The Upper Class is a four-book series. The first book, The Upper Class, revolves around two new students who are mismatched roommates. Laine is an old-money field hockey star from Greenwich, Connecticut, with ethereal, Swiss-blonde beauty and a shyness that translates as coldness. Nikki is a new-money Long Island girl who at first has no idea that she comes off as brash, loud and gauche to the other students. A bet is placed by Schuyler, the daughter of a famous director, on one of the girls--and it affects the fate of them all.

Miss Educated is the second book, and it begins with a bizarre finding at a frozen lake on campus. Parker, a tall Canadian girl who prefers smoking and listening to records to playing sports, and Chase, a South Carolina good old boy, become unlikely bedfellows--in a sense. They even end up in Mal Pais, Costa Rica--a playland of surfers and hedonists--for a week. Their alliance is threatened by a ghost of sorts--an expelled girl in a blue coat who shows up again on campus one spring day.

Off Campus, the third book, contains a super-tight (almost sexual) friendship between two girls--Nikki, again, and Delia, a new girl from La Jolla, Ca, who shows up at Wellington for dark and rumor-riddled reasons. Delia provokes the school's archaic sensibility by dating a West Indian guy from Brooklyn, and Nikki tries to keep up by going out with a Colombian politician's son. The girls make it from one scrape to the next, always keeping their heads above water, until they get an idea into their heads that they deserve a journey, no matter what the rules say.

Crash Test, the fourth book, follows Parker and Chase again. The story winds from New Years Eve in Miami, complete with overturned hotel rooms and cocaine, to a fireside living room in Ottawa, through a snowy semester at Wellington--full of love and SATs and ice hockey and renewed friendship. And finally to a kid named Jamie, an outsider who looks like Pete Doherty, staying at a mansion in the town. He gives Parker a magic pill--called Oxyconton, and the question becomes not just how the semester will end, but IF everyone will see its end.