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Wagenen, Maya van.
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Self-confidence.
Life skills -- Humor.
Teenage girls.
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Wagenen, Maya van.
Wagenen, Maya van.
Self-confidence.
Life skills -- Humor.
Teenage girls.
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Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek /
Maya
Van
Wagenen
.
by
Wagenen
,
Maya
van
.
Dutton Juvenile, c2014.
Call #:
155.533 W131p
Subjects
Wagenen
,
Maya
van
.
Self-confidence.
Life skills -- Humor.
Teenage girls.
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ISBN:
9780525426813 (hbk.)
Alternate title:
Popular : vintage wisdom for a modern geek
Description:
259 p. : ill., portraits ; 24 cm.
Summary:
A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author
Maya
Van
Wagenen
. Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at "pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren't 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 real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise-meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told with humor and grace,
Maya
's journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and self-confidence.
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