"[1] The book was first published in August 2006 by Viking Press, a division of Penguin Group, and was a subject of a bidding war that ended in a sale for six figures.

She starts to attend the St. Gallway School and befriends a group of popular, rich, and mysterious teenagers called the Bluebloods.

The Bluebloods are also close friends with the film-studies teacher at St. Gallway, Hannah Schneider, a perplexing woman, who intrigues Blue.

The chapters are named after literary works like Othello, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Wuthering Heights, and Women in Love.

[5] In 2007, Variety reported that a movie version was in the works, to be produced by Scott Rudin[6] and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the writing-directing team behind Half Nelson, however, as of 2021 the project has never progressed to filming.