The Pack (Pack #1)

by Lisi Harrison (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
Series: Pack

A pack of best friends navigate first crushes, new friendships and more at their school for girls with animal powers!

Don't be fooled. . . . Charm House isn't like any other charm school. Charm stands for Center for Human-Animal Reform and Manners. Every girl who boards there has an animal light inside her that is wild and needs to be tamed. New girl Sadie just wants to stay out of trouble and blend in. When she learns she has the fiercest animal light of all, she is invited to join the group of it girls known as the Pack, led by Lindsey, the school's queen of the jungle. Soon Sadie is consumed by social drama and her secret feelings for an off-limits private-school boy. Charm House is supposed to protect them, but danger looms when someone starts to threaten the girls. Is the school in jeopardy--or is someone trying to tear the Pack apart? 

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ALA/Booklist

An evil science institute, literal cattiness, new friendships, and explorations of identity are all woven through this fun, fast-paced read, guaranteed to fly off the shelf.

Publishers Weekly

Harrison (the Clique series) dives into girls’ boarding school dynamics in this playfully paranormal series starter. After animalistic impulses and anger issues get her into trouble at middle school, straw-blond Sadie Samson is transferred to Charm House, a girls’ boarding school in Timor Lake, Wash. There, she discovers that Charm, the "Center for Human Animal Reform and Manners," secretly shelters and trains girls like her, who possess animal spirits known as lights. Learning that she has a rare lion light, which distinguishes her as a potential leader among species including hyenas, giraffes, and monkeys, Sadie falls in with the Pack, a clique of popular girls led by tiger light Lindsey. When a series of mysterious attacks implicate her snake light roommate, Sadie must solve the mystery at the heart of Charm House to prove her leadership mettle and save her friends. Scant world-building raises more questions than the brief, fast-paced story has room to detail, and character descriptions are often limited to backward-looking phrases ("exotically gorgeous," "narrow-waisted"); Sadie, nevertheless, makes for a sympathetic, engaging protagonist throughout. 

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Review quotes

"An evil science institute, literal cattiness, new friendships, and explorations of identity are all woven through this fun, fast-paced read, guaranteed to fly off the shelf." —Booklist

"A sympathetic, engaging protagonist throughout."—PW

Lisi Harrison
Lisi Harrison is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Clique, Alphas, Monster High and Pretenders series. Her most recent series are Girl Stuff and The Pack. Lisi was senior director of Development at MTV and also served as head writer for MTV Productions. She now lives in Lagauna Beach with her family. Follow her on Instagram @authorlisiharrison.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780593180723
Lexile Measure
650
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Yearling Books
Publication date
June 21, 2022
Series
Pack
BISAC categories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV039100 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Peer Pressure
JUV002340 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Jungle Animals
Library of Congress categories
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