cliques (sociology)

Wyatt Palmer is just another undersized freshman hoping to fit in at high school, but when his best friend Matt Diaz's pet ferret ends up in the hands of the Bevins, the most popular boys at Coral Cove High, Wyatt and Matt try to get the animal back by attending a party for the cool clique and stumble onto the Bevin family's dark secret.

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

In an effort to make friends at her new school, Sofia gets involved with a group of popular girls who dislike Brooklyn, a loner who they believe to be evil.

The graphic memoir of Shannon Hale in which she reflects on her childhood friendships.

Reed Brennan, devastated when Billings House, her home at Easton Academy, is destroyed, vows to rebuild, but finds there are people who will go to great lengths to keep that from happening.

After the death of Cheyenne Martin, Reed Brennan takes over as president of the Billings Girls at Easton Academy and must find a way to get her prep school invited to the annual, all-inclusive Legacy party.

Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to an exclusive private school, and thinks she has finally found a way to escape her troubled home life, but when she arrives, the students are not what Reed expected and she struggles to find a way to fit in with the other girls.

In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.

When Croix asks Denver to go with him to a beach party in Malibu, she's hesitant because she's not exactly friends with the kids who will be there, particularly her ex-best friend Abigail. And when a tsunami hits the coast Denver finds herself struggling to survive in a lifeboat filled with popular kids who, even in the midst of a catastrophe, barely acknowledge her.

Thanksgiving break is approaching, but no one's even close to relaxing, especially not Lauren, who is dealing with boyfriend issues and training to test for the advanced team while fighting feelings of jealousy toward another rider.