westchester county (n.y.)

A manga adaptation of "The Clique," in which the arrival of Claire Lyons, a new girl at Octavia Country Day, a private school in Westchester County, New York, upsets the order in the Clique, the social group that rules the school under the direction of Massie Block.

Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire--five teenage girls with different reasons for wanting to attend the New Year's Yves party in Orlando--meet and form the Pretty Committee.

While stuck in Westchester over summer vacation, Kristen faces months of boredom with her friends all away, but when she lands a job babysitting Dune Baxter's younger sister, Ripple, Kristen discovers a chance for a summer romance.

Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.

As the only member of the Pretty Committee clique not going on an exotic summer vacation, middle-schooler Kristen might just find romance sticking around to tutor math and attend a secret summer school for gifted students.