speaking of community college...

I've been grumpy about the lack of teen novels that feature characters who go to community college. But last weekend I got a few advance copies of books, and one of them (Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom) featured a character in community college! And some average students! I was surprised and pleased.
I also read Lauren Myracle's Rhymes with witches. It's not Mean Girls, it's not Flowers for Algernon, and it's not The Chocolate War, but I can see why the book invited comparisons to that movie and those books. I was really hooked while I was reading, impressed directly after I finished, and filled with doubts about plot points three days later. In particular, I'm dying to know: could the *itches steal each other's popularity?