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
jeans, Dylan make her lost and Massie make fun of her. On the next day at school, Claire decided to make a new friend so she sits with Layne at lunch. Layne tells that Massie, Alicia, Dylan, and Kristen formed the “Pretty Committee” (PC). Layne and Claire make plans to hang out on Friday night, but their plans are ruined when Massie's mother invites Claire to Massie's weekly sleepover, so Claire call Layne and postponed it. The night of the sleepover Alicia asks the girls if they'd rather be A) a friendless loser or B) a person with lots of friends who secretly hate you; they all chose B, except Claire. The next day, Layne arrives at Claire’s guesthouse. To make Massie jealous, Claire purposely caresses Chris’s hair, after being told that he already had a girlfriend. When Massie knows that Layne is Chris’ sister, she tells him that she likes Layne. On the next day at school, Massie go find Layne and revealed the exact reason why Claire cancel it on Friday and tell her that now they’re friends, secretly. On that afternoon, Layne dumped Claire after knowing that painful truth. While waiting for Massie to do they’re “Glambition” project, Claire had making them (except Massie) to have fun with her until Massie come and shoot her down. Claire dashed up to her guesthouse with tears. Her mom notices that something had gone wrong. She asks her mom to not worry about this because she’s afraid that she will talk about this to Massie. She’s planning to go to the Block’s house to talk with Massie for a while. As soon as she’s there, she can’t find Massie, while Massie is not there, she’s thinking to sabotage her life. Meanwhile, an idea popped out from her thoughts after seeing an iMac on Massie’s room. She takes that moment as an advantage to hijack Massie’s Instant Message. She I.M. Alicia, where she pretends to be Massie and tell that she now likes Claire and figures out that denim is now on teen vogues. She asks Alicia to tell to the other PC to use shorts over tights on the next day. On that day, everybody use shorts over tights, except Massie. The next night, she goes I.M. Dylan. She insults Dylan that her leg wouldn’t look great using a miniskirt. So the next day, Dylan is getting mad at Massie and uses a long terrible skirt to hide her legs. The next night, Claire hides Bean to gain time hijacking Massie’s I.M. Claire asked Kristen to trades secret for secret. Kristen told her that her parents are actually poor and she’s there because of the WCD scholarship. For the trade, she told Kristen a secret that she’s (as Massie) now a friend of Layne, the one who used to been called as an LBR. The next day at school, Alicia, Dylan and Kristen befriend Claire and ditched Massie. Claire hang out with them after school, they go into a glamorous designer store. Alicia offers Claire to buy a dress for the charity auction and give Claire her phone that she’s not using it anymore, she went home really late. Claire’s mom is worried sick of her daughter who really change, for the result her mom ending up banning her to hang out with Alicia, Dylan and Kristen and demands her to return the dress back to Alicia. That night, Massie I.M. all of her friends, but only Kristen reply after she told her the lip-gloss tubes for Glambition had arrived. Kristen arrives to pick up the package when she and Massie get into a heated argument and find out about Claire's scheme. So they decided to hook Claire in the conference call telling that her fun, and her, were over.
The PCs are making the Glambition lip-gloss recipe and plan to launch it on their trip to NYC. They’re also talking about the auction, they suggest Massie make a surprise for Chris since his birthday is on the same day. Massie decide to popped out of a giant birthday cake using a custom-made t-shirt reading “I ♥ Chris Abeley”. Before departing for the school’s field trip, the PC is launching the Glambition lip-gloss, everyone inside the bus is so excited and they directly use it. Not long after that, a lot of girls’ lips were swelling, it’s because they’re allergic to peanut oil that contains in the lip-gloss. Massie text Claire anonymously telling that oatmeal will help the swelling, so Claire ask Layne for the oatmeal and be the hero of the day. Kristen thanks Claire for saving the day, and admits that she’s better off knowing her secrets. On the auction day, Claire meets Chris’ girlfriend, Fawn. She returned the dress to Alicia and regenerates her friendship with Dylan. Later, Claire stops Massie from popping out of the cake and announcing that Fawn was Chris's girlfriend and she want to give him something. Massie is guided backstage where she and Claire settle their friendship and Massie reveals that she too would pick "A) A friendless loser." She gives Claire a white rose. So that Claire go home with her biggest smile that she ever had since she’s in New York. She’s telling her mom about the auction and telling her mom that she’s not sure how long their friendship and/or rose will stay. The end.
This book is telling a story about a young girl that really need to fight hard to survive in her new city, with the PC who made her life even worse.
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
God.
The Clique makes me feel that I’m lucky my parents had enough needs and I don’t have such a PC at school that maybe can ruin my life as well. I learn that we shouldn’t give up even if we fail in our first shot. This book is in the third person point of view and contains personification, similes and metaphors. I highly recommend this book to my friends because it’s enjoyable and easy to read with fun dramas in it. This book is in the third person point of view and contains personification, similes and metaphors.