Emily, the student council vice president, orchestrated the corporate sponsorship. That includes funding the Vander High School's dance and athletic programs. They're having trouble getting land, so they're trying to put pressure on the town to let them end. StarMart wants to put a store in their town. Meanwhile, Jesse meets Esther Meinz in detention and the two join forces in activism. Every Tuesday she meets Emily Miller at the library to make out. She goes around the school in an awful pair of boots and a homemade haircut hanging up posters with her manifesto for the liberation of weirdos. But George's writing keeps the transition from being too jarring. It's a little distracting at first since both Emily and Esther's sections are told in first person and Jesse's is in third. Madeleine George's sophomore book shifts between three points of view.
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