Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)
  • Published: 15 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141353272
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)

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15 Apr 2014
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10 Jul 2014
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15 Apr 2014
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GEEK GIRL meets JULIE AND JULIA - soon to be a MAJOR FILM

"School is the armpit of life," my best friend Kenzie once told me. My School is no exception.

A memoir, POPULAR is written by 15 year old Maya - a self-proclaimed 'geek' who's baffled at her school's Social Ladder. The jocks, the volleyball girls, the band kids, the outcasts, it felt like a jungle to her. Then Maya meets Betty - or more specifically, the 1952 edition of 'Betty Cornell's Guide to Teenage Popularity' andshe embarks on a brave - and secret - social experiment.

Maya follows Betty's vintage wisdom - one chapter at a time (from 'poise' to 'personality' to 'hair' - and even her seat in the dreaded cafeteria) for each month of her school year ahead. In POPULAR, she chronicles the hilarious and poignant results - right up to the culmination of her grand experiment: prom.
  • Published: 15 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141353272
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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Maya Van Wagenen

Maya Van Wagenen is fifteen years old. When she was eleven, her family moved to Brownsville, Texas, the setting of Popular. When not hunched over a desktop writing, Maya enjoys reading, British television and chocolate. She now lives with her parents and two siblings in rural Georgia. She is a sophomore in high school but still shares a room with her sixth-grade brother. Remarkably, they have not yet killed each other.