Clio’s life up to age seventeen has been anything but ordinary, but her goal this summer is to get a job in the art store she loves, working with the guy she likes, hopefully get her first kiss, and generally have a normal teenage experience in Philadelphia. Just as things are falling into place, her mother moves to Kansas for the summer with her new boyfriend to work on an art restoration project and Clio isn’t invite.

Lissy James moves from California to Oklahoma, starts in a new school, and is soon overwhelmed by the social scene. The popular kids call themselves "The Goldens" and classify everyone else as a "Non."

Sidecrollers by Matthew Loux

Brian, Brad, and Matt just graduated from high school and are spending their summer days lounging around playing video games and eating Slim Jims and candy.  Their peaceful laziness is interrupted by Amber, the cute new girl in town that Matt has an intense crush on.

Meg Cabot's recent novel How to be Popular was pretty much what I expected -- a girl finds a book on how to be popular, follows the advice, and soon finds that the popular people she seeks to emulate aren't all that great after all. As an added bonus, she falls in love.