Harrison, Lisi. Sealed with a Diss. NY: Alloy Entertainment, 2007. 248 pages. (Fiction / Clique Series)
Sealed with a Diss is about the mega popular Massie Block whose clique of girlfriends includes Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, and Orlando, Florida native, Claire Lyons, whose love of anything sticky, sweet and gummy is never-ending. Massie has been offered the ultimate chance to be the eighth grade alpha next year. Everything in this series of books are in the cutthroat social world of OCD: the exclusive private school located in Westchester, New York, where the most common brand names around are Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, Miu Miu, and Prada.
There is a special secret room in the basement of OCD that is set aside for the most popular eighth grade girl ( the alpha.) The former alpha, Skye Hamilton, is hiding the key to the room and Massie has found it and is on her way to alphahood. Along the way, Claire discovers that her boyfriend, Cam Fisher, has been carrying on with Nikki, a girl from his summer camp. Massie’s boyfriend, Derrick Harrington, or Derrington, as the clique secretly calls him thinks that Massie is too “immature” and Massie thinks the same of him. Derrington wears shorts all of the time, even in winter and wiggles his butt when he’s happy. Massie has a mission to hook up Skye Hamilton with Chris Abely, a former crush of Massie’s. Since Chris just broke up with his über-blonde girlfriend, Fawn, it’s not easy in the least.
All of the girls in the clique must have a date for the upcoming dance or they will be disqualified from the race for the Room. They all show up with dates at the dance, even though their dates abandon them in the middle of the dance, they become the new alpha’s of next year eighth grade alphas.
I thought that this book was a clever rendition of a group of young girls who go through their own “troubles” in their Prada-filled world. (I put “troubles” in quotes because their so-called problems are nothing compared to a real person’s life.) However, it was well written and humorous,s and I am eagerly waiting for the next book to reach our libraries and stores.
Reviewed by: JackSparrow136
