New York Times BestsellerPopular Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek is a touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen.School is the armpit of life . . . and my school is no exceptionStuck at the bottom of the social ladder at pretty much the lowest level of people at school who arent paid to be here, Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? The reallife results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprisemeeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told with humour and grace, Mayas journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and selfconfidence.The real deal. . . A teenage John Green for the next generation. Stunning. Margaret Stohl, bestselling coauthor of the bestselling Beautiful Creatures seriesPopular is wonderful. It is charming, touching, entertaining and brought back a lot of memories about my own high school anxieties. I will be saving my copy to give to my daughter when she is a little older Jo Elvin, GlamourI was inspired by [Mayas] journey and made a point of saving a copy of Popular for my sister, who starts middle school this fall. Maybe if I had read it when I was her age, it could have saved me from a world of hurt, or at least put that world...
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New York Times BestsellerPopular Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek is a touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen.School is the armpit of life . . . and my school is no exceptionStuck at the bottom of the social ladder at pretty much the lowest level of people at school who arent paid to be here, Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? The reallife results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprisemeeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told with humour and grace, Mayas journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and selfconfidence.The real deal. . . A teenage John Green for the next generation. Stunning. Margaret Stohl, bestselling coauthor of the bestselling Beautiful Creatures seriesPopular is wonderful. It is charming, touching, entertaining and brought back a lot of memories about my own high school anxieties. I will be saving my copy to give to my daughter when she is a little older Jo Elvin, GlamourI was inspired by [Mayas] journey and made a point of saving a copy of Popular for my sister, who starts middle school this fall. Maybe if I had read it when I was her age, it could have saved me from a world of hurt, or at least put that world...
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