To Be Or Not To Be . . . Popular.
Cliques, outcasts, queen bees, clubs, and trying to fit in.

   Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon

Newcomer Lola wins the lead in the school play, and with that the wrath of the established school drama queen, snotty Carla Santini. Thus begins the war to be number one...

   Edge by Diane Tullson

14 year-old Marlie has been dropped by her best friend and deals with torment every day at school. She thinks she has finally found friends in a group of outcasts, but soon learns that they have plans for torments of their own...

   Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life by Lauren Myracle

What's worse that the first day of school? Showing up with your mom's underwear stuck to your pants! This is not how Alli hoped to get noticed.

   First French Kiss and Other Traumas by Adam Bagdasarian

"I tried to find a way to kiss her and breathe at the same time, but no matter where I turned my head, her nose was always there." Can Will survive this and other traumas?

   Goodbye, Amanda the Good by Susan Shreve

"The Club was the fringe group at Alice Deal...They were brave and daring and rebellious, afraid of nothing, and Amanda Bates, who had been a good, obedient girl for all her life, wanted to be one of them."

   I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader by Kieran Scott

"Would any of these people end up being my friend? Did I have anything in common with any of them? What if this school was too cliquey and no one wanted someone new to, you know, clique with?"

   On the Fringe by Donald R. Gallo

Stories about what it feels like to be on the outside and be bullied, and what it can drive you do.

   Rhymes with Witches by Lauren Myracle

Plain Jane goes from invisible to initiated into the cool-girl clique of her school. How far is she willing to go to keep the attention?

   Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

At first Micca High is enchanted by the strange and mysterious ways of Stargirl. Leo Borlock instantly falls in love with her. But when the schools turns on Stargirl, Leo has to ask her to be the one thing that could destroy her: normal.

   Tribes by Arthur Slade

Meet the Tribes of Grade 12: the Jock Tribe, the Logo Tribe, the Born-Again Tribe, the Lipstick/Hairspray Tribe, the Teacher Tribe, the Cool and Detacted Tribe, and more... as told by self proclaimed quasi-omniscinet Observer Percival Mountmount, Jr.

   ttyl by Lauren Myracle

"it's so fake. all that clique stuff. i hate feeling like everyone knows the secret handshake but me."

   Walking Naked by Alyssa Brugman

There are those who are popular. There are those who are outcasts. And there are those who must choose between the two.