Young Thaddeus Steward watches Rob come into school and move into the alpha dog role, pushing out Lane the reigning king. Some people have it, and some people don’t, and peer pressure and fitting in are so important to teens. Then Rob makes the school nerd, Simon Glass, into a popular kid. What kind of power is that? This story explores those unseen dynamics at work in middle schools and high schools and delivers the powerful message that the ending isn’t always a happy one. Ages 14 and up 210 pages