The+Clique

**Summary/Review**
Claire Lyons moves with her parents from Florida to wealthy Westchester County, NY. Until they can get settled, the family stays in the guest house of Mr. Lyons's college buddy, who happens to have a daughter who is also in seventh grade. Expected to welcome her, Massie instead chooses to make Claire's life miserable for no other reason than she's the new girl. Massie enlists her clique of friends at Octavian Country Day School, all part of the beautiful and popular crowd, to help with the harassment, which ranges from catty comments on Claire's clothes to spilling red paint on her white jeans in a conspicuous spot. Tired of it all, Claire tries to fight back, but then the abuse worsens. The clique... the only thing harder than getting in is staying in (1).

**Author Bio**
Lisi Harrison was born in Toronto on January 20th 1975. She was the Senior Director of Production Development at MTV, Music Television, and was responsible for creating and developing original programming for air on MTV. She also served as Head Writer for MTV Production and before that had her own column in Jane Magazine. Now her current occupation is as a writer, living in Laguna Beach, California (2).

**Other Works**

 * The Clique (series)
 * Best Friends for Never
 * Revenge of the Wannabees
 * Invasion of the Boy Snatchers
 * The Pretty Committee Strikes Back
 * Dial L for Loser
 * It's Not Easy Being Mean
 * Sealed With a Diss
 * Bratfest at Tiffany's
 * P.S. I Loathe You
 * Boys R Us
 * Charmed and Dangerous
 * These Boots Were Made for Stalking
 * My Little Phony
 * A Tale of Two Pretties
 * The Alphas (series)
 * Monster High (series)

**Awards**

 * New York Times #1 Bestseller
 * "Quick Pick For Reluctant Young Adult Readers" by YALSA

**Historical Context**
Suprisingly, MTV was Lisi Harrison's inspiration, not middle school, to write The Clique. Several employees at MTV would do and wear anything just to be accepted by the so-called "cool people." It reminded her so much of life in the seventh grade that she had to write about it. And the rest is history.

**Major Themes**

 * friendship
 * what goes around comes around

**Citations**

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