<P><B>Author/illustrator Amy Ignatow’s signature sense of humor is on full display in <I>The Long-Distance Dispatch Between Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang</I>—second in the Popularity Paper series—as the best friends navigate their way through junior high school.</B><BR/> <BR/> After spending all of fifth grade studying popularity together, Julie and Lydia are finally ready to put their hard-earned lessons to use in junior high. But before they can, disaster strikes: Lydia’s mom gets a job in London for six whole months! Before Lydia can say “Fancy a cup of tea?” she’s thrust into a new school, where she earns a reputation as “the Violent American.”<BR/> <BR/> Meanwhile Julie’s stuck navigating the cliques of American junior high on her own and is adopted by a group of troublemaking eighth graders known as the Bichons. The two best friends will have to learn to keep in touch and stand on their own, assist