In an alternative civilization where the social status of each person is monitored and rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse's popularity ranking is so low her only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own life in danger.

After three months as a nobody in junior high, Amanda finds her world changing when members of the popular and exclusive clique The Club set their sights on her for membership.

A small incident during recess threatens to turn nine-year-old Marvin into the outcast of his third-grade class.

Two unpopular girls try to break into the seventh grade clique system, even though they're not really sure they want to be popular at all.

Sixteen-year-old Steph Landry finds an old book on how to be popular and decides to change her social status by following its advice, much to the bafflement of her two best friends.

Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to be herself.

Geeky tenth grader Raymond Dunne, who runs the school's lost and found booth, decides to climb the social ladder by teaming up with popular twelfth grader Jack Alexander and starting an underground club.

As Haley's first spring break from Hillsdale High comes to an end, she continues to try to find her place there, while the reader's choices help her to select boyfriends, sports, and other activities, as well as how to juggle her busy schedule.

Tired of continually having his feelings hurt by popular students and bullies, fifth-grader Nathan agrees to try an experimental formula, Hurt-Be-Gone, and becomes a half-dead zombie, a condition which, he soon discovers, has some real advantages.

Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Orville, until one of her homemade flying machines takes her to the rescue of a Boy Scout troop in trouble.