Getting the girl / Juby, Susan

Nineth-grader Sherman Mack, an amateur private investigator, has a crush on tenth-grader Dini, and tries to help her stay off the high school D-list, a cruel ritual that would ruin her social status forever.

Ninth-grader Sherman Mack investigates the "Defilers," a secret group at his British Columbia high school that marks certain female students as pariahs, at first because he is trying to protect the girl he has a crush on, but later as a matter of principle.