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Reader reviewed by Roxy

As the sixth book in the Clique series, I think Lisi Harrison is continuing to do a great job with the books. These books are about rich, popular, stuck-up girls who encounter a not-so-rich, un-popular, non-stuck-up girl that ends being in their clique. While these books may seem unreal and superificial to some people, plenty of other people like them. After all, just because they seem unrealistic doesn't mean they're not good. Don't read too deep into them, they're just to be read for fun.

Anyways, Dial L for Loser was basically about Hollywood. Three out of the five members of the Pretty Committee (Massie Block, Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, and Claire Lyons)got to go to Hollywood to try out for the part of Molly (a loser) in the movie, Dial L for Loser, after the star orignially cast to play her(Hadley Durk)quit because she found out her co-star (Abby Boyd) stole her boyfriend - again. (Kristen's mom didn't let her go because she's strict and since Kristen is grounded since the Pretty Committee got expelled from their school, Octavian Country Day School (OCD) [See the fifth Clique book, The Pretty Committee Strikes Back for details] and Dylan can't go because she was the one that let out the secret of Abby with Hadley's boyfriend.) Massie is superconfident that she'll get the part, but her overconfidence is what got her to get rejected. Alicia was too beautiful, no one would ever believe she was a loser. That leaves Claire. She's not the most beautiful and she's not overconfident, so she seems to be the perfect person to play Molly.

Massie and Alicia become jealous and use every oppurtunity they can to embarrass her. And since Dylan's mom, Merri Lee Marvil, is the host of the Daily Grind, she made Massie and Alicia do a behind-the-scenes segment for the movie. Massie and Alicia, of course, use one of the segments to make Claire look like a "nervous, stinky, hairy, incontinent, balding, flaky, itchy mess." (Taken from page 203 of the book.) They also send a picture to Claire's boyfriend back home, Cam Fisher, of her kissing Hollywood hottie, Conner Foley, which makes him break up with her.

Massie and Alicia get a surprise of their own as they also become embarrassed when pictures of them show up in US Weekly. So the girls have their share of ups and downs in Hollywood but in the end, everything works out fine. Claire and Cam get back together, Claire's acting seems to be a success, the girls get readmitted to OCD, and get a welcome back party thrown for them. As for now, life seems good.

Only time will tell what happens in the next book, It's Not Easy Being Mean.