Book Discussion: February 2025

Feel free to discuss any Clique or Alphas book in the comments of this thread and to create other book discussion threads if you want.

Title: It's Not Easy Being Mean (book #7)

Release date: March 7, 2007

In-universe timeframe: 7th grade, from April 4 to April 11 (8 days)

Covers: Front, Front with large text, Back

Back cover description:

Look out boys, here comes the Clique!

Massie Block: Getting back into Octavian Country Day was a piece of sugar-free cake compared to Massie’s next goal—finding the key that unlocks an ah-mazing legendary secret room at OCD. Alpha eighth grader Skye Hamilton and her clique have stashed the key in the bedroom of a mystery Briarwood boy—but which one? Whoever finds the key gets access to the secret room for an entire year and the prestige that comes along with it. But what happens when LBR Layne seems to be getting closer? This is way more than a matter of life or death; it’s a matter of in or out!

Kristen Gregory: Always been a star on the soccer field, but her style gets majorly cramped when her friends are forced to join the team, too. They better start kicking those soccer balls or Kristen’s going to start kicking some . . . !

Alicia Rivera: Uses her skills as a gossip reporter to scheme her way into the rooms of all the Briarwood hotties!

Dylan Marvil: Heard depression makes people lose weight. Is hoping for some sad news soon because she’s popping donut holes the way some people pop Tic Tacs.

Claire Lyons: Being famous isn’t all it's cracked up to be. Her agent confiscates her gummies and forces her to do some very bad things to make her more “edgy.” Worst of all, her constant meetings with lawyers and movie execs are eating into her time with the P.C. and with Cam! Is being a Hollywood starlet worth the Gucci-high price tag?

Discussion threads:

Regular series books:

  1. The Clique (from massiekurrrr)
  2. Best Friends for Never (from massiekurrrr)
  3. Revenge of the Wannabes (Oct 1, 2024)
  4. Invasion of the Boy Snatchers (Nov 1, 2024)
  5. The Pretty Committee Strikes Back (Dec 1, 2024)
  6. Dial L for Loser (Jan 1, 2025)
  7. It's Not Easy Being Mean (Feb 1, 2025)
  8. Sealed with a Diss (Mar 1, 2025)

Supplementary material: