Authors Note: The Clique shows that if someone doesn’t like you for you and you have to change yourself for them to like you they aren’t your true friend.
Imagine moving away from all your old friends and everything you had growing up to move to a snotty rich kid school and live in the most popular girl’s guest house. For Claire Lyons this was all true. At first she thought Massie would be a nice sweet girl and that they would be friends, but she realized the harder she tried to fit in with the popular group the more they would reject her. She has to make new friends but at the same time she tries to make it seem like she doesn’t care about being friends with the most popular girls in the school.
Whenever Claire tried to fit in with them they would make her life miserable, they made fun of her and did not include her in anything they did. Nothing she did was right to them, even if they liked what she said or did they would put her ideas down and make a better one. Claire tried too hard to be approved by Massie and all of her friends, she didn’t realize she could make friends that would like her for her and not making her live up to the approval of them.
Some of the things in the Clique could actually happen in someone’s life. There are 7 books in this series so it’s not like other books where the book just ends, these keep going with new things happening throughout all the books. Most of the people that read this book are girls but boys could read them if they really wanted to. This book shows that if people aren’t nice to you then you shouldn’t be their friend, if they were a true friend she wouldn’t have to try that hard to fit in with them.
Books in this series show the excitement of moving and meeting new people; it also shows how sad it is to leave everything behind that you knew before. Things she does with her new friends reminds her of the things she used to do with her old friends. In a way this book shows that it’s important to move on in your life but to cherish the things in your past.
