conformity

Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle, a being from another world who was swapped with a human child when he was a baby, struggles with his allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground and wants desperately to live like a normal teenager, and when his crush Tate's sister disappears, Mackie sets out to find her and gets a chance to find his rightful place in the world.

Alexandra Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques and among students they exclude, revealing the labels students stick onto each other, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students falling under these categories are often shunned and celebrates them as a crucial piece of American culture, inspiring the outcasts--nerds, freaks, weirdos, punks, and Goths--to be more creative and inspired and helping them become larger players in American society as they enter the real world.

Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual.

In a regimented future world in the United States under the all-seeing eye of the Benefactor, nameless survivors of a devastating war live out lives devoid of emotion.

George Babbit is a middle class American living in an average Midwestern city, in this satire of middle class life.

Tale of a coniving, prosperous real estate man who becomes totally corrupt.

In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.

An illustrated, thirtieth anniversary edition of the Harlan Ellison story about a nonconforming rebel in a future society that has sacrificed personal freedom in exchange for conformity and punctuality.

In a regimented future world under the all-seeing eye of the Benefactor, nameless survivors of a devastating war live out lives devoid of emotion.