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''[[The Clique]]'', a series of middle-school novels by Lisi Harrison, revolves around the lives of the Pretty Committee: Massie Block, Claire Lyons, Dylan Marvil, Alicia Rivera, and Kristen Gregory. These spoiled seventh-graders (later eighth-graders) consider themselves the experts of fashions of Octavian Country Day School, and aren't afraid to let other students know what they think of them. In a nutshell, a series in which the [[Alpha Bitch]] and her [[Girl Posse]] are the protagonists.
The books are bestsellers, and a direct-to-DVD adaptation of the first book was released in fall 2008.
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[[The Clique/Drinking Game|Drinking game here.]]
* ''[[Prequel|Charmed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Pretty Committee]]''<ref>Chronologically ''Charmed and Dangerous'' was published between ''Boys R Us'' and ''These Boots Are Made For Stalking''. </ref>
* ''The Clique''
* ''Best Friends for Never''
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* ''My Little Phony''
* ''A Tale of Two Pretties''
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Todd, for Massie and Alicia.
* [[Adaptation Decay]]: [[The Movie]] tries to make Claire seem much more on top of everything than she really is (Especially with Glambition). It also makes her nicer (Actually stopping Massie from embarrassing herself with Chris Abeley instead of sitting around and watching) and changes the ending entirely.
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* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: The protagonists and most of the other characters.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' mess with Massie's Clique, or her friends.
* [[Big Breasts, Big Deal]]: Deconstructed. Alicia was forced by her parents to have breast augmentation surgery against her will at the age of twelve, and while boys are crazy over her and the other girls are all jealous, she feels insecure because of how oversized she is. Likewise her cousin, Nina, was forced to have breast implants and it made her a narcissistic sociopath.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: Massie, Alicia. To a less emphasized degree, Dylan.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Literally addressed in "Best Friends for Never" when the girls present various "uniforms" for different colorations (the blonde role being split between Kristen's dark and Claire's light, brunette as Massie, and redhead as Dylan.)
* [[Breast Expansion]]: Alicia was forced by her parents to get breast implants at the age of TWELVE, as was her cousin Nina, both to make them more "viable" for future husbands and because Alicia's mom is a failed ex-model with body issues. Massie also has breast implants, but why her parents allowed (or forced it...) this is never touched on.
* [[Buffy
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: subverted, as Alicia is mocked for how absurd she looks at thirteen with breast implants.
* [[Catch Phrase|Catchphrases]]:
** Alicia: "Point."; "given" ; "I heart X.".
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* [[Determinator]]: After Kristen fails with the Glambition project, she turns in a ''bankcrupcy report'' as her project.
* [[The Ditz]]: Alicia's friend and almost beta Olivia.
* [[Dragon
* [[Egg Sitting]]: With synthetic babies in Claire's class in ''Bratfest at Tiffany's''.
* [[The Film of the Book]]: Well, a [[Direct to Video|Direct-to-DVD movie]].
* [[Fauxreigner]]: Alicia's dad (Mr. ''Rivers'') isn't Spanish, but pretended to be so that he could marry his spanish supermodel wife, he then changed his surname to ''Rivera''.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: Nina.
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]: Massie
** [[The Dragon]]: Alicia
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** [[The Dark Chick]]: Dylan
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Claire.
* [[Four
* [[Gag Boobs]]: Alicia has gigantic fake tits, but gets mocked (by girls at least) for how overblown she looks.
* [[Gasshole]]: Dylan burps a lot.
* [[Gecko Ending]]: The movie's ending implies that Massie leaves the Committee and starts hanging out with Claire.
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* [[Naive Newcomer]]: Claire, in the beginning and to a lesser degree throughout the books.
* [[Not So Different]]: Eventually Massie and Alicia (When they're running separate Cliques.)
* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: Claire dates Dempsey so that Cam will get jealous.
* [[Pastimes Prove Personality]]: Horse-riding Massie is a rich snob. Various other rich and spoiled characters play tennis, golf, squash, etc.
* [[Perspective Flip]]: The series focuses on a group of nasty middle-schoolers, making it a sort of 'Flip on middle-school and high-school fiction in general.
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** Alicia's father is Antonio in the first two books and Len in every book after ''Revenge of the Wannabes'', though this might be due to the fact that everybody knows where he's actually from after that book.
** Brownie the Horse manages to change from a brown mare, to a white stallion, and then back to a female again. Albeit this time a brown and white one.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Constantly.
** The entire conflict of the third book is resolved because Massie's donates a new school building so that the school gives up it's new uniform policy.
* [[Shout
* [[Squick]]: Besides the fact that Alicia, a 7th grader, and her cousin Nina were forced by their parents to have breast augmentation surgery at '''TWELVE''', Massie offhandedly mentioned at once point ''her'' implants "burst" once.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Massie shows several classic traits of sociopathy, though it's unknown if she was intentionally written that way.
* [[Spicy Latina]]: Alicia
* [[Spin
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Massie sometimes acts like one to convince her father to do what she wants.
* [[The Starscream]]: Alicia frequently tries to either take over Massie's clique or start her own.
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* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: And how! The reason Massie initially doesn't want to date Derrington is because of his obsession with shorts in all seasons.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Massie, who is an [[Alpha Bitch]].
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Massie. A few other names count as well.
* [[Written Sound Effect]]: In ''P.S. I Loathe You'', a pigeon calls, "Hehhhhhhhhhh, hoooooooooo. Hehhhhhhhhhhhh, hooooooooooo. Heeeeeeeee, Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" as it poops on the Pretty Committee.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: A toned down 'tween' version between Massie and Alicia (And hence the Pretty Committee and eventually the Soul-M8s)
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