Click Here, by Denise Vega, is about a girl named Erin Swift. Erin is in the 7th grade and has a blog in which she writes her private thoughts. Erin writes about her best friend, Jilly, secrets about her big brother and just some of her harsh views on things. At school Erin joins the intranet club, and meets Mark (who she develops a huge crush on) and Rosie. Jilly and Mark meet and start going out. Erin makes a CD with her intranet page on it and gives it to a friend to put on for her. Over break, Erin receives 57 phone messages all relating to her private blog seen on the intranet. Many people are mad at her including, Jilly, Serena Worthington who is Erin’s enemy, Mark and a boy named Tyler. After a couple weeks of insults Erin wears a sandwich board to school asking the four kids to forgive her. After a couple weeks everyone forgives her. Jilly and Erin are working on their friendship, and Serena and Erin no longer hate each other, Mark and Erin decide that its better to be friends than be boyfriend/girlfriend. Tyler ends up not mad at Erin, and Erin still writes in her blog, but tones it down a little bit.
The theme of the book is friendship. Erin has some friendship troubles and is forced to deal with them. Erin secretly feels like Jilly is bossy and is always controlling her. After a while Erin confronts Jilly with this and they both end up mad at each other. Erin's friendship with Mark ends up in shreds. All at the end Erin makes new friends and heal her old friendships. This is a very light-hearted book, which fits into the theme offriendship. I enjoyed this book because Erin's problems seemed real. Also for the blog sections which set it apart from the average surviving middle school book. I also liked the conflict between the characters, and for some of the parts which were laugh out loud funny. I would recommend this book to other girls because Erin deals with problems that real girls have. I would not recommend this book to boys because this book is really a girl book.
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