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"&amp;quot;The Hot List&amp;quot; effectively tackles a real scourge of middle school: popularity obsession. It offers a realistic portrayal of peer pressure, mean-girl behavior, and tween angst through well-drawn, relatively complex kid characters who struggle with these issues. The adult characters are more like ciphers, if not AWOL altogether. Sophie's dad, the school principal, remains clueless about &amp;quot;The Hot List&amp;quot; craze that has completely consumed the student body and unaware that his daughter is having trouble accepting his new girlfriend and her daughter, a school rival. Lessons learned don't come from grownups here but from the kids themselves, as when Squid shows Sophie that giving up his dorky friends is too high a price to pay for being in the in crowd."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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