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← CatalogBefore Elle Woods was a fish-out-of-water at Harvard, we meet her in 1995 in the tumultuous waters of high school where she encounters tricky friendships, forbidden romance, and questionable fashion choices. In this unexpected chapter of her adolescence, we learn about the experiences that shaped Elle into the iconic young woman we've come to know and love.
1It's 1995, and Elle Woods is living a 16-year-old's dream: she has a perfect plan to dominate her junior year in Bel-Air. Her world turns upside down before she gets to put that plan into action when her parents tell her they have to unexpectedly move to... Seattle.
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2Elle must clean up the mess she's made by bringing justice to the only friend she's made in her new city. But when Elle learns this could lead to unintended consequences, she questions what's more important: saving her reputation or fighting for justice.
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3When the school bully threatens to spread a rumor about Elle's crush, Elle goes to great lengths to hide her true feelings until her attempts to stay under the radar are thwarted by an embarrassing fashion faux pas. Meanwhile, Elle's mom Eva throws a garden party and finds that her Bel-Air social skills don't quite translate in Seattle.
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4When Elle is inspired to organize her school's first-ever Homecoming, she experiences friction with her classmates until she learns to delegate and leave room for others to shine. At the same time, Elle's crush becomes single, igniting a bravery in Elle that she didn't know she had and causing her to question whether or not she wants to escape back to Bel-Air after all.
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5After a sudden tragedy strikes, Elle throws all of her energy into helping a friend in need when she's waylaid by an unexpected out-of-town visitor. Elle finds herself torn between her past and her present as she tries to cope with complicated, adult feelings she's never encountered before, all while wrestling with the consequences of her romantic actions.
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6After weeks of suspecting that there's corruption at the school, Elle and her friends get themselves thrown into weekend detention so they can search for proof. The group's close proximity heightens Elle's romantic tensions with her crush and exposes a past relationship that had been kept secret.
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7For once in their relationship, Elle and her mom Eva fail to see eye-to-eye on a tricky situation, which causes Elle to question her moral compass. Elle ultimately bets on her own instincts and rallies the student body to publicly expose a grave injustice. She thinks she's finally won over her classmates, but a past misstep resurfaces and threatens to ruin everything.
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8After Elle's reputation is damaged at school, she escapes to the comfort of Bel-Air. She enrolls in her dream internship and meets a personal hero but she realizes she has unfinished business in Seattle and must make a choice between two worlds she cares deeply about.
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