 The Ginny Gordon, books, though, begin in medias res, beginning in the fall of the year after school has started.Ginny's best friend is Lucy Tryon, who, like Honey Wheeler, was a new girl in town, but her arrival took place before the first book opened.At some date before the opening of the series, Ginny, Lucy, and John Blaketon—Ginny's love interest—and his thirteen-year-old twin cousins Whiz and Babs Reilly formed a secret club, the Hustlers.