I loved the idea." Harrison actually wrote this book as a "joke", highlighting that she had named the high school "OCD"–akin to a disease known as obsessive–compulsive disorder, commonly abbreviated as OCD. She said of this proposal, "Always being a closeted wannabe author - I jumped at the opportunity. They approached Lisi Harrison, who was working as a writer for MTV, about producing a series of youth novels. The book-packaging subdivision of Alloy Online, which focuses on the teen market, conceived the series after becoming interested in developing an in-house franchise. The books have a spin-off series, Alphas. The video game The Clique: Diss and Make-Up is based on the book series. The novels are being adapted into a series of graphic novels by Yen Press, with the first volume released July 2010, with art by Yishan Li. A film, based on the first novel The Clique, was released on November 11, 2008. In 2007, Warner Brothers announced that it had partnered with publisher Alloy Entertainment to create a series of direct-to-DVD films based on the books. It was announced on Lisi Harrison's website that the fourteenth book (which was released February 15, 2011) would mark the end of the series. Harrison composed a guide to the series' "teen speak" terminology and trivia, Cliquetionary, which was released on November 16, 2009.
From April to August 2008, five novellas named after the five main characters were published in a subseries called "The Clique Summer Collection." The novellas focus on each title characters' activities during the summer between their seventh and eighth grades in school.
A second set was released in November 2006 containing books four through six. On October 4, 2006, a box set called "The Clique Collection" was released containing the first three novels of the series. As of June 2012, 14 novels have been released in the main series. The first novel, The Clique, was released on May 19, 2004. As the series progresses, Claire slowly develops a friendship with Massie, realizing that she must earn her friendship, and eventually becomes a member of the group. Claire is initially considered an outcast due to her financial and fashion status. Claire and her family move from Orlando, Florida to Westchester, New York, where they live in the Blocks' guesthouse. The Pretty Committee is a popular clique at the fictional, all-girls middle school, Octavian Country Day (OCD).
The series revolves around five girls: Massie Block, Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, and Claire Lyons, who are known as The Pretty Committee. The Clique is a young adult novel series written by Canadian author Lisi Harrison and originally published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. Cover of The Clique, the first novel of the series, released on May 5, 2004
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