Its not Easy Being Mean by Lisi Harrison

Significance
This book is number seven in the Clique Series. It is about Massie and her friends struggling to find the key to the legendary "secret room" and they encounter some struggles on the way. This story matters because it is a book of realistic things that actually happen to middle-schoolers and so we can really relate to what the book is saying unlike books written about adults, which we can imagine but not thoroughly understand. The events that take place in this book are important because they can help the reader make good decisions in their middle school years. The author is trying to say that cliques in middle school are not good and proves it by wirting a series of not so good events. I decided to choose to read this piece because I have gotten really good reviews about it and I have read every other book in the series and i definitively enjoyed the authors writing style and the realistic events in the plot. I don't think that adults would really enjoy reading this book because it is not at all relevant to them and it is written for more the middle school/ high school ages.

Perspective
This book was written just this year [2007] so it is very modern and easy to relate to. The author went to a school where there were a lot of cliques, so her experience really helped her make the book more realistic and better. Lisi Harrison is clearly against having the popular cliques or the LBRs (Losers beyond reach)
I know this because she is very open about and in the back of her book there is her life story and a bunch of Q&As and she expresses that she is against these cliques. It definitely depends on the reader's beliefs/age/thoughts when it comes to the interpretation of this piece. For example, an elderly person would not like it so much as a 7th grade preppy girl. It all just depends on the readers style. So if you are into classics, mysteries, adventure and historical books, I would not recommend this book to you.

Evidence
Lisi Harrison is trying to make a point which is that it is not important if you are popular or not. Even in the story, the not so popular girls were happier than the popular ones. But, the fact that the popular girls have power over the school definitely weakens the argument. Really, there is no tests or facts of what state is better to be in, popular or not so popular and the only way to really find out the answer is to live it. That is the only evidence you will ever get.

Connection
Wow, I can make sooooo many connections with this book. To start off, everybody in the book are all 7th graders, just like me. So when the author explains how the characters feel, I can really understand and feel what these characters are.This book can relate to pretty much any middle school human. If you are an adult it would be somewhat harder for you to be able to relate to this book, for it has many things such as lingo, phrases and attitude that they would not understand as us kids are able to. This book definitely inspired me to read more because I usually really don't like reading at all, and so it takes me a long time to read a book, but this book really made me not want to put it down. I was really interested in everything that was happening and it made me like reading a lot more.

Supposition
Based on the information I am guessing that Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen and Claire's 8th grade year is going to be AMAZING. I think this way because they got the key to the secret room and everybody knows it, too. They are already the most POPULAR girls in the school but now they are probably going to become even more powerful, because it is impossible for them to get more popular. If Layne kept the key instead of trading it to Massie, things would have been soooo much different. The Pretty Committee would no longer be so popular and the school would now be in the power of Layne. I think that would have been a change for the better because people would have been following whatever Layne does, which is good. She is not mean, and she doesn't care about what people think of her. There are so many different things that COULD HAVE happened instead of what did, but I guess the Pretty Committee was meant for the room

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