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♫♪ Catchy music playing ♩♬ *excited chattering* They're between fourteen and sixteen years old. Social life is a dominant interest. Every school class has several groups or "cliques". This boy's name is Rod Hunter. An unusually popular adolescent. He's a three-letter athlete, he's intelligent, and he comes from a family with  good income and high social prestige. Rod is the leader of the clique which dominates the social life of the school. Here's Ben; a boy whose background could be described as lower-class, but his exceptional talent, his intelligence, his determination, and his social know-how have all brought him almost total acceptance among the clique. Psychologists call him a "climber". Then there's the middle case. Susie Summers. She belongs to the clique and has lots of friends. She doesn't enjoy quite the same popularity as Rod, perhaps because she is close rivals with her elder sister and lacks a sense of security. And the exception to the general rule, the