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Monday, August 3, 2009

Mean Girls-esque

Yep, I just read The Rise and Fall of a Tenth Grade Social Climber. Really good book, almost like The Princess Diaries or the Clique series in some ways. But what it really resembles is the movie Mean Girls: girl moves to a new town, makes stupid bet with unpopular friend to see if she can become a popular girl, plan works, she gets sucked in, loses herself, finds herself, keeps all her friends... etc.
Only in this book, the popular girls are bizarre, out-of-your-league cool. Viv wears enough eyeliner for fifteen people, Lily acts like she doesn't give a darn, Pia always has the latest European styles, Jess flirts with everyone she meets, and their leader, Nona, doesn't seem to be real. When Nona ends up in the hospital, the main character, Mimi, makes her move. She somehow gets into the popular clique and discovers all their secrets, and what she finds is surprising (and also that cheesy heartwarming lesson): the girls actually are real people.
This book was great, I'm so glad I found it. It is a page turner and has a little bit of everything: romance, adventure, friends, New York, psycho, eccentric parents, and everything else. Awesome book.

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