num_pages: 448
description: When school lunchroom doors open hungry students rush in searching for tables where they wouldn't be outsiders. Of course in middle school and high school almost everyone is an outsider: the nerds the new girls the band geeks the loners; even the popular cheerleaders. Alexandra Robbins' The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth takes us inside the hallways of real schools to show us how shifting cliques and permanent marginalization affect children. Following individual students over the course of a year she tracks the plight and possibilities of self-confessed nerds freaks punks Goths and weirdos. Her central message is heartening: Our increasingly homogenized society ultimately needs and welcomes the cafeteria fringe.
language: English
title: The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
publisher: Hyperion