Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence is a 2002 book by Rosalind Wiseman. It focuses on the ways in which girls in high schools form cliques, and on patterns of aggressive teen girl behavior and how to deal with them. The book was, in large part, the basis for the movie Mean Girls (2004). Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Rosalind Wiseman is an author most famous for her 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, on which a large part of the plot of the hit comedy film Mean Girls (2004) was based. ... A clique (pronounced AmE , BrE ) is an informal and restricted social form of ruling cliques or a group of politicians who limit control of others through insular conduct. ... Mean Girls is a 2004 film written by (and co-starring) Tina Fey. ...