This was an enjoyable way to blow a couple of hours. This book was written more for tweens than it was for teens, but it was light and funny, and I had a good time reading it. Madison, Olivia, and Taylor are tired of being humiliated by the mean girls, worse yet, those mean girls used to be their best friends. Now they can't even walk near them with having an insult fly their way.
Embarrassed after the worst Monday ever, the girls decide to have a cleansing party, cutting themselves off from their old friends. They burn their names on pieces of paper, and put mementos of their past friendship in storage. They didn't think it would actually do anything, turns out, they'd never been more wrong. Suddenly, Madison, Olivia, and Taylor are turning into the mean girls. They're saying things they don't really mean, they're pulling mean-spirited pranks, they're evening turning on each other! Now they have to figure out how to get things back to normal, before they've lost all of their friends for good!
This book was a little shorter than I would have liked. You didn't really have time to connect with the characters before they were turned into someone else completely. The storyline was funny and easy to connect with. We've all had mean girls in our lives, whether we knew them, or were them. It all depends on how you dealt with them if you made it through unscathed. I loved the karmic fallback of the fun ritual the girls did, and I loved the funny clips that Olivia did on the morning announcements. Overall, this was a entertaining read if you're in the mood for something light when you have a few hours to blow.
Embarrassed after the worst Monday ever, the girls decide to have a cleansing party, cutting themselves off from their old friends. They burn their names on pieces of paper, and put mementos of their past friendship in storage. They didn't think it would actually do anything, turns out, they'd never been more wrong. Suddenly, Madison, Olivia, and Taylor are turning into the mean girls. They're saying things they don't really mean, they're pulling mean-spirited pranks, they're evening turning on each other! Now they have to figure out how to get things back to normal, before they've lost all of their friends for good!
This book was a little shorter than I would have liked. You didn't really have time to connect with the characters before they were turned into someone else completely. The storyline was funny and easy to connect with. We've all had mean girls in our lives, whether we knew them, or were them. It all depends on how you dealt with them if you made it through unscathed. I loved the karmic fallback of the fun ritual the girls did, and I loved the funny clips that Olivia did on the morning announcements. Overall, this was a entertaining read if you're in the mood for something light when you have a few hours to blow.
Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
Catherine Clark makes her debut in middle grade fiction with MEANICURES. What happens when some of your so-called friends turn into the mean girls?
Seventh grade is bound to begin with changes, but Madison definitely wasn't expecting some of the changes she encountered. Most of her friends understand the challenges Madison faces when it comes to her mom and her crazy hair experiments, but when seventh grade begins with Madison trying to hide the hideous green streaks caused by her mother's latest product testing, she discovers several of her former friends use it as an opportunity to taunt and tease. And that's just the start of their new mean girl attitude.
Madison and her two remaining friends, Olivia and Taylor, are determined to figure out a way to separate themselves from the other girls who seem to consider it their full-time job to make life miserable for them. Ignoring them doesn't appear to make any difference, so Madison plans a way to use a magic spell to repel their negative energy. The only problem is, it seems that the spell reverses itself and is now turning Madison, Olivia, and Taylor into mean girls, too.
MEANICURES may be just the book to get real girls thinking about their own relationships. Ms. Clark uses humor, the fear of bad hair days and public humiliation, along with typical middle school behavior, to entertain as well as make a point about the difficulties of young friendships.
Catherine Clark makes her debut in middle grade fiction with MEANICURES. What happens when some of your so-called friends turn into the mean girls?
Seventh grade is bound to begin with changes, but Madison definitely wasn't expecting some of the changes she encountered. Most of her friends understand the challenges Madison faces when it comes to her mom and her crazy hair experiments, but when seventh grade begins with Madison trying to hide the hideous green streaks caused by her mother's latest product testing, she discovers several of her former friends use it as an opportunity to taunt and tease. And that's just the start of their new mean girl attitude.
Madison and her two remaining friends, Olivia and Taylor, are determined to figure out a way to separate themselves from the other girls who seem to consider it their full-time job to make life miserable for them. Ignoring them doesn't appear to make any difference, so Madison plans a way to use a magic spell to repel their negative energy. The only problem is, it seems that the spell reverses itself and is now turning Madison, Olivia, and Taylor into mean girls, too.
MEANICURES may be just the book to get real girls thinking about their own relationships. Ms. Clark uses humor, the fear of bad hair days and public humiliation, along with typical middle school behavior, to entertain as well as make a point about the difficulties of young friendships.
