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The Pretty Committee Strikes Back
265 pages
A glossy, gossip-fueled romp through the high-stakes world of middle school crushes and clique warfare.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like eavesdropping on the most popular girls in middle school as they plot their next social maneuver. The mood is breezy but laced with the intense, life-or-death stakes of adolescent interpersonal relations, where a school trip to the woods becomes a battleground for crushes, kissing, and clique dominance. The prose is snappy and brand-conscious, perfectly capturing the glamorous, cashmere-draped anxieties of its young cast. It moves at a brisk, gossipy pace, pulling the reader through a web of romantic scheming, financial secrets, and shifting loyalties. This is a delightfully dramatic escape for anyone who loves juicy, fashion-forward juvenile fiction where the social hierarchy is everything and every glance from a crush changes the world.
- Mood
- breezy
- angsty
- glamorous
- Tone
- gossipy
- dramatic
- sassy
- lighthearted
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- middle school social dynamics · clique politics · first crushes · friendship and rivalry
- The writing
- Snappy, brand-conscious, and conversational, mirroring the hyper-focused priorities of its middle school protagonists.
- The arc
- A whirlwind of adolescent anxiety and romantic scheming that resolves in hard-won lessons about loyalty and self-confidence.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love juicy, fashion-forward middle school drama filled with crushes, cliques, and scheming.
Content notes
- clique behavior
- financial insecurity
About the book
The girls of Octavian Country Day pack up their warmest cashmere coats and their tiniest iPods and board the bus for a President’s Day class trip to Lake Placid. But bears aren’t the only scary thing out in those woods. The Briarwood Boys are staying in a cabin just a few yards away, which means the girls in Massie’s Underground Clinic for Kissing (M.U.C.K) might have to find the guts to put their money where their well-glossed mouths are. Kristen can’t afford to go on the trip, but that’s not about to stop her. Dylan’s mom is smooching her history teacher. Alicia’s crush Josh has his eye on someone else. And Claire is about to do whatever it takes to get Cam back.
Description from Open Library.
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