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Analyzing Lisi Harrison's 'The Clique'
The Clique
The Clique, a popular fiction New York Times best selling novel for teenagers by a talented author, Lisi Harrison. This is a story about a seventh-grade student Massie Block who was facing a new life with Claire appearance, being sabotage by the new girl, and how she made a happy ending.
Massie is so excited for a party that she’s waiting for, but she get a bad news that the Lyons family will be staying at the Block’s guesthouse until they find a new perfect place to live. So she’s trying to be nice, but since the first time she see Claire “OMG! LBR! (Loser Beyond Repair)” is running through her mind. Claire is so not her type, she can even judge it from how not fashionable she is. Later that night Claire convincing her mother that she needs to have shopping to grab some new clothes so that she can fits in with the people in town, especially Massie. She wears her new clothes on the first day of school in Octavian Country Day. On they’re way to school Massie pick up her best friends, there is where Claire meets Alicia, Kristen and Dylan. Claire comes by and asks Massie for a room location and Massie replied with a snide remark, she asks why is she acting like this, purposely calling her with a harsh word. The girls then begin to plan a way to "ruin" Claire. On her first day of schools the four best friend manage to ruin her life, Alicia spills paint all over her …show more content…
With ups and (mostly) downs she experienced but she’s still not giving up until she can fits in and be friends with the PC. This book is entertaining, and meaningful. The author uses third point of view, she’s there as the narrator. Also, she uses language that is so comfortable for teenagers like us to read. It’s not confusing, entertaining, and uses a lot of slang words that we’re familiar to - like “nawt” for not, “ehmagawd” for oh my
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