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** These Boots are Made for Stalking ** Clique Book # 12 Written by Lisi Harrison Published by Little, Brown and Company, March 2010 Fiction 228 pages long Accelerated Reader Level 5.5 Recommended for girls ages 11 to 14

** Summary: ** It’s Halloween in Westchester, NY and the Pretty Committee (AKA, the PC), Octavian Country Day School’s 8th grade clique, is looking for some fabulous costumes. Massie Block, Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, and Claire Lyons are the stylish members of the PC. Massie, the Alpha of the clique, is nervous about asking her 9th grade friend, Landon Crane, to go trick-or-treating with them. Landon already had prior plans, so she drops her dog, Bean, off with Landon so that his dog, Bark, and Bean can have a play date. Massie goes with the rest of the clique and their 8th grade boyfriends. While trick-or-treating, the group of trick-or-treaters encounter the house where the Halloween movie “scare-a-thon” that Landon is attending is taking place. Massie is nervous when she sees Landon and ends up stepping on Bark’s foot, fracturing it, and humiliating herself. Later that night at the PC’s sleepover, Massie tells the girls that she thinks that the other 8th graders who tagged along on the trick-or-treating are too immature for the PC, so she decides that the girls need to “upgrade,” and find some new 9th grade friends. All of the girls are excited for the idea, except for Claire. Claire is perfectly fine with her 8th grade friends, and doesn’t know why they should rush to grow up if they don’t have to. So, Claire, and her non-PC best friend, Layne Abeley, are coming up with a plan to convince the other members of the PC to keep their friends that they have now. The next day after the sleepover, the PC heads to the dog boutique owned by Landon’s mother to buy Bark a get well gift. Massie gets him the SnoopDawg 2000, a charm that is put on a dog collar with a built in video camera in it, so that owners can check on their pets when they are not with them. Little does Landon know that Massie got the password for the SnoopDawg so that she can spy on Landon through the SnoopDawg website. Massie decides that she is going to have a party with the 9th graders and the PC in her spa. Claire doesn’t come, but she later shows up with the PC’s ex-8th grade friends. Massie and the girls are embarrassed, but the 8th graders suddenly lose interest in the girls ditching them for the 9th graders and go to play video games. One day while in her room, Massie spies on Landon through the SnoopDawg website. While online, she sees Landon and a girl with a tattoo of a bird on her ankle and sees her hand Landon an invitation of some sort with a paw print on it. They then leave the room, and Massie leads a search to find out who “Ankle-bird” is. On the search, all the girls, except for Claire, skip school to go to Landon’s school, Abner Doubleday Day (ADD for short), to look for Ankle-bird. At ADD, they see an invitation like the one that Landon got. They look at it, and the girls see that it is an invitation to a party at the local dog park for the high school kids and their dogs. The girls quickly leave to go and make a plan. Massie texts Landon to ask if he has any plans the night of the party, and he says he has to have dinner with his parents, which leaves Massie free to look for Ankle-bird. Massie then asks Layne to make puppy booties with video cameras in them so that she can spy on all of the ankles at the party. Meanwhile, Massie invites Claire to the party, and Claire declines at first, but then decides to go. Will Massie find who Ankle-bird is and keep her friendship with Claire? Read “These Boots are Made for Stalking” to find out.  ** Review: ** “Why grow up before you have to?” This story’s theme is that you should never forget about your old friends and get new ones, no matter what the circumstances. It can produce tension between your friends and you, and that should never happen. Lisi Harrison’s writing style is very detailed and realistic. She captures all of the gossip and glamour of middle school girls in Westchester, NY. I liked this book because of the creativity. I have read the entire Clique series, and I like that it is somewhat realistic. Some of it is very girly, which I personally enjoy! The detail with the little things really captures the reader’s mind. I could not put this book down while reading it!

I would most definitely recommend this book to someone else, because it is a funny, realistic, book that can give you some insight of what it is like to live in Westchester, NY. I would give this book a rating of 8.5 out of 10. Regina Munsch, Mr. Gamache, Period 4/5
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