It's Not Easy Being Mean (Clique Series)
by Lisi Harrison
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Author: Lisi HarrisonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-07
ISBN: 0316115053
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Poppy
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Summary: 5 Stars
The Pretty Committee thought for sure that they would find the key to the heavenly room, but who could be sure when Losers Beyond Repair (LBRs) like Layne Abeley had gotten one also? The key was to a room that staff did not know about and only Octavian Country Day's eighth grade alphas were given the key. However, Skye Hamilton was the alpha when Massie was in seventh grade, and she made a riddle of finding it so Massie and some LBRs would be competing. Claire Lyons, an ex-clique member, found the key and made it back in to the clique in exchange for the key, which the clique brought to Skye and saw the ahb-viously fantastic room. The whole book led an interesting and intriguing journey to that point, and I wish there were more.
One good thing about It's Not Easy Being Mean was the constant humor, even when Massie was worried sick about the key. She would insult people with witty little jokes that made her look smart and other people look woefully dumb. One morning, Claire was wearing a heavy jacket and looked nothing like the other clique members who were wearing designer names and no jackets, and Massie asked her "Are you a zit?" Of course Claire said "no," and Massie asked "Then why are you all covered up?" Later, when they were deciding how the key would be given to the clique, or "...you must be poor....cuz you're not making any cents." When Dylan dropped a plastic bag on the ground with no regard for the environment, Massie asked her if she was a cat, and when she said no, she inquired "Then what's with the litter?"
I also liked how Claire was always getting embarrassed, like when she was getting ready for an audition and had to wear eyebrow extensions and outrageous black hair for a few days, or when her little brother Todd sold her pajamas with a blueberry stain on the back of the pants to a fan of her stardom in the movie Dial L for Loser. Claire was also embarrassed when the Pretty Committee was rating their outfits and she didn't even want hers rated because of its insufficient level of Designer names and over use of jackets.
The superlative part of the book was how Massie Block, the `alpha' (at least in seventh grade) tried to get someone to like her, even if she was alpha in the eighth grade. When she went to talk to her at her house, she brought mini doughnuts because she knew that Skye liked mini things, and when she had the key, she couldn't just walk up and tell her, she had to prance in front of her seats at the soccer game until she gave up and wrote a note, supposedly from Chris Abeley, to Skye. Massie even admitted to herself that she was covetous of Skye, though Skye and not of Skye's DSL Daters (her clique).
It's Not Easy Being Mean showed the weaknesses of even the "alphas" of middle school, like Massie coveting Skye's reputation and the key and Skye writing a poem about Chris Abeley, which shows that no one is perfect. It showed that you can have innumerable friends even if you have a smaller house (like Skye), and it did all this while telling about a clique of girls that you love to read about because of their ah-mazing lives and Pretty Committee adventures.
-K. Carson
Summary of It's Not Easy Being Mean (Clique Series)
Massie Block: Getting back into Octavian Country Day was a piece of sugar-free cake, compared to Massie's next goal-finding the key that unlocks an ah-mazing legendary secret room at OCD! Alpha eighth grader Skye Hamilton and her clique have stashed the key in the bedroom of one mystery Briarwood boy, but who? Whoever finds the key gets access to the secret room for an entire year and the prestige that comes along with it. But what happens when LBR Layne seems to be getting closer? This is way more than a matter of life or death, it's a matter of in or out!Kristen Gregory: Always been a star on the soccer field, but her style gets majorly cramped when her friends are forced to join the team. They better start kicking those soccer balls or Kristen's going to start kicking some . . . !
Alicia Rivera: Uses her skills as a gossip reporter to scheme her way into the rooms of all the Briarwood hotties!
Dylan Marvil: Heard depression makes people lose weight. Is hoping for some sad news soon because she's popping donut holes the way some people pop Tic-Tacs.
Claire Lyons: Being famous isn't all it's cracked up to be! Her agent confiscates her gummies, and forces her to do some very bad things to make her more "edgy." Worst of all, her constant meetings with lawyers and movie execs are eating into her time with the P.C. and with Cam! Is being a Hollywood starlet worth the Gucci-high price tag?
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