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| Clique #9, The: Bratfest at Tiffany's (Clique Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisi Harrison
Publisher: Poppy
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 4567
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.8
MPN: 9
ISBN: 0316006807
EAN: 9780316006804
ASIN: 0316006807
Publication Date: February 5, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW COPY,NO UGLY REMAINDER MARKS !!!
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Product Description
Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition, Hardcover, 1664 pages / Fully revised print content. Features more than 225,000 definitions, 700 illustrations and more than 10,000 new words. Special sections including a Handbook of Style. Includes easy-to-install Windows/Mac CD-ROM and free, one-year subscriptions to the new collegiate website. Thumb-notched hardcover edition with jacket. Reference Book Type: Dictionary; Subjects: N\A; Age Recommendation: N\A; Language(s): English.
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 A parent's review February 8, 2008
21 out of 25 found this review helpful
A guilty pleasure for middle-school girls, this shallow, mean and funny novel skewers the 8th grade world in the same way Sex and the City does ours, though without the adult overtones. The catty, fashion-obsessed girls of the New Pretty Committee are like PG-rated versions of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte. Their "ehmagawd" adventures are addictive.
This latest Clique novel -- the 9th in the series -- starts with alpha leader Massie declaring a "boyfast" for the group. None of the girls can crush on a boy, or face expulsion from the NPC, and certain LBR status. LBR? Loser Beyond Repair.
With tongue firmly in cheek, author Lisi Harrison slips in endless pop references and brand names. When Massie gets upset with herself, she gets "snippier than Katie Holmes' hairdresser in 2007."
As long as girls take it all with a grain of salt, they'll love this little comic treasure.
 The most ah-nnoying book ever read! March 3, 2008
11 out of 17 found this review helpful
I haven't finished the book yet(pg.88), although I plan on finishing it, but from what I've read already, I can see that this whole series should never have been published. The girls in this book all seem to be really superficial, shallow, and downright mean to anyone who is not dressed as "good" as they are. The only girls who might be the least annoying are Claire, and Alicia. That's it. Massie is the most annoying. I don't have a favorite character, but if I did, it would be any of the "LBR"'s (Loser Beyond Repair.). Mainly because they are the ones that deserve the good stuff. In fact, the actual LBR's in this book, are the five girls in the "Pretty Committee". These situations are not even real, and they are so stupid. I really hope this series ends with each one of the girls getting their hearts broken, so they really are the "Losers Beyond Repair." And don't get me started on the writing of the book, I mean "Thanks ah-lawt", "ah-dorable" "ehmagawd", and "Ah-greed"? What kind of English is that? The bathroom incident with Irika was a very mean thing to do to that poor girl. She didn't deserve that kind of treatment. Even their name (New Pretty Committee) sounds shallow, and disgraceful. This book is worthless, and petty, and I do not recommend it to anyone. Don't waste your money on this "book." And By the way, I believe that Massie and Claire deserved to be dumped and/or replaced.
A hit for this 29-year old, too! February 23, 2008
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
With the boyfast firmly in place, Massie Block and crew prepare for the invasion of the Briarwood boys after the destruction of their wavepool drowns their school.
Massie hands out gorgeous necklaces at the beginning of the semester to remind The Clique to remain boy-free, after their humiliating experiences last semester. Unfortunately, this isn't much of a challenge, as most of their crushes seem to have moved on to new OCD girls.
No matter, The Clique can't be held down by circumstance, and when they (except Alicia) get moved to a funky trailer to make room for the boys, they make the best of it and manage to make even their LBR (Loser Beyond Repair) schoolmates seem somewhat cool. But even though the boyfast is supposedly going strong, each girl has some boy interest that jeopardizes her membership in the NPC (New Pretty Committee).
How will Massie and crew come out on top (you know they will)? Read this guilty-pleasure book and find out.
You CAN judge a book by its ah-dorable cover! February 9, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was so excited when book 9 of the Clique series finally came out. Bratfest at Tiffany's will not disappoint Clique fans. It is perhaps the best one yet!
This book entertains us with stories of what happens when the Briarwood boys invade OCD. (think back to the end of book 8 when the wave pool destroyed their school, forcing the boys to attend school at OCD.) Nothing is the same for the NPC- not even their beloved cafe! With the boyfast in full-swing, the NPW- minus Alcica- are forced from the main building to attend class in overflow trailers. The NPC in a smelly, unstylish trailer filled with LBRs? Truly an entertaining read!
There are also some unanswered questions about Florida, Massie's purple hair streak, a confidentiality contract, and a shark-tooth necklace....perhaps to be answered in the Clique Summer Collection?
I am a middle school teacher who has turned so many girls onto reading by introducing them to the Clique series. Lisi Harrison's books are well-written, fun, sophisiticated, yet very age-appropriate.
 A Win-Lose Book March 3, 2008
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
Hopefully, the Clique series is supposed to be satirical and mocking, and that's why the characters + situations are so extreme and starry-eyed. And HOPEFULLY the satire is SUPPOSED to emphasize how ridiculous it all is.
And so, you could say the "message" attempting to be sent is that all of this, standing as an universal theme, is to save yourself of it, because honestly, it's too ridiculous.
However, the satire (although funny, but more pathetically-trying funny) is dull, and no message is sent, at least to me, a teenage girl, just like the rest of the majority of readers.
Obviously, this series has a fan-base. You could say that I am part of it, in that I love the books as a very easy, very funny, laughing read (and one that has nice fashion tips). However, I would never say that I am part of the fan-base because of the incredibly poor writing and editing, the incredibly unrealistic situations and characters (if the satire was better, it would make sense), and the incredibly shallow, downright dumb plot. Breakfast at Tiffany's, especially, proved to be the weakest and poorest plot. Lisi Harrison has said on her website, "By using extreme characters and extreme situations I'm hoping you'll realize how crazy our behavior can be." Replace "extreme" with annoying and unrealistic (again, it would work if the satire worked), and replace "our" with people from planet, "The Attempts of Lisi Harrison." At least the attempt was made, for it gave us a very, very guilty pleasure.
It's a win-lose book, and it would be debated whether it is or is not worth your time.
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